Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches $5250 framed Exhibiting: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM About this oil: Sunsets have always intrigued me. They offer such a wide range of colors, everything from soft and poetic to fully saturated. I usually lean toward the softer end myself, but this composition let me play with both, which is exactly what made it irresistible to me . I started with the cloud bands, and they went in quickly, enough that I thought this painting might c

Oil canvas, 30 x 40 inches $5250 framed Exhibiting: Breckenridge Gallery, Breckenridge, CO To purchase About this oil: I came across this view some months ago and was immediately drawn to the depth of it, especially the sloped meadow and hill running through the center. It had a quiet strength from the start. The challenge was the scene was entirely green. Every part of it. This made it harder to keep the painting visually interesting, I worked through several attempts be

Yellows Moving Through, oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches Exhibited: Sorelle Gallery, Westport, Connecticut Private collection, Florida My thanks to the collectors of this and other oils. About this oil: I am fascinated with forest patterns and it's a recurring theme in my work. There's an intricacy in this composition that expresses a forest, but it isn't a portrait of one. This is an abstracted idea, a place where forms, shapes, and color are free to move around and find their

Surrounded in Blue, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Exhibiting: Sorelle Gallery, Westport, Connecticut $9250 framed About this oil: From the beginning I was focused on two things, a pattern of tall, spare trees at a creek and as much blue as I could get behind them. The trees are spare, not a lot of foliage and all to allow more of the blue to come through. There's an elegance to the trees and that's intentional. Have I mentioned blue yet? Everything in this painting is desig

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Radiant Landscape Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches Exhibiting: Sorelle Gallery, Westport, Connecticut $10500 unframed To purchase About this oil: This broad view challenged me to create a large painting. The piece developed slowly from a small, uninteresting photograph, one of those images that doesn't tell you much but hints at something worth pursuing. I wanted every part of the space to have a presence, every area to be worthy of attention and not just the obvious focal poin

Color at the Lake Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Exhibited: Sorelle Gallery, Westport, Connecticut My thanks to the collector of this oil. About this oil: There are times when I walk into the studio with a real hunger for color. I used this composition as a vehicle to explore autumn hues and push them to a new place. I purposely played the yellows down, allowing the focus to stay with the mauves and oranges primarily. Yellow is a color that I have spent a lot of time with. It’

Purple Woods Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches Exhibiting: Sorelle Gallery , Westport, Connecticut $6650 framed About this oil: One of the many pleasures of being a landscape artist is that you can rearrange nature as you please. Even more pleasurable is the facility for being a colorist and in this case, once I decided purple would be the primary color, I stepped into a completely new world. This is a forest that never existed before, but looks familiar and believable. There's a

Lake Light Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Private collection, San Diego, CA About this oil: Years ago I did a small pastel of a Texas lake, one of those pieces that stays with you. When I came across it again recently, I knew I wanted to revisit it and this time as a much larger oil. The pastel was a really good one and the challenge was to create something even better on a much larger scale. The layout is similar, but eve

Grateful notices: Brights Merging Oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM Private collection My sincere thanks to the collector of this oil. About this oil: Growing up in the art business means I've spent a lifetime looking at other artists' work and what keeps pulling me back, what gives me genuine joy, is the interplay of light and color. It's the thing that gets me into the studio every morning. I'm especially drawn to landscape

Red Forest, White Hill Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches Framed, $4400 Exhibiting: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM About this oil: There are times when I just want to create a red forest, but this wasn’t a straightforward process… actually they rarely are. My first attempt wasn’t very interesting, so I set it aside and returned later with a better idea. This time, I added the dark trees on the left and pushed the dark effect and that’s when everything began to come

Colors in Contrast Oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM Private collection, Colorado My sincere thanks to the collectors of this oil . About this oil: I don't often work at this scale in oils. The size was kept small to quickly layout an idea of intensely colored trees without being concerned about their specific shapes or the season, just the color itself. It made for a quick start and some exciting color relationships emerged

Soft Meadow View Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 in. Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM Private collection, Colorado My sincere thanks to the collectors of this oil About this oil: I was immediately drawn to this view, the line of trees across a meadow with mountains in the distance. When I began to lay it out, I realized how much potential was in that long, sweeping six‑foot stretch of landscape. Having that much canvas to work with gave me room to experiment wi

Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico My thanks to the collector of this oil. About this oil: This idea arrived as a gift. After recently completing the oil Sunset: Cascading Color, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, I prepared cropped closeups for posting it on my website. One of those image fragments caught my eye and the next day I began a new oil from that idea. As always, there was a lot of paint on the palette from yesterday’s session and I began w

Green Canopy Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in. Exhibiting: Sorelle Gallery, ​ Westport, Connecticut , $13,500 framed To purchase About this oil: I have been intrigued by this composition of a line of trees at a creek revealing a dense forest beyond. This is the largest painting I have done that captures that idea. The oil began as trees with very sparse foliage but that wasn’t very effective for this scale so I shifted to made the trees fuller. The background was in place but now

Oil on canvas, 40 X 40 inches Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Private collection Thank you to the collectors of this oil About this oil: This painting started with the idea of capturing those fresh greens that show up in early spring. Working on the canvas over a series of days, I couldn't resist the urge to bring in more colorful elements, just touches at first, then more as the painting developed. I was struck by how the young trees stood out against th

Patterns at the Lake, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in. Exhibiting at the Breckenridge Gallery , Breckenridge, CO. $4400 framed To purchase About this oil: I first started this oil painting more than ten years ago. Back then, the canvas was filled edge to edge with a dense forest of yellow trees and a single hill that filled everything behind it. After many studio sessions, I knew something wasn’t quite right, so I set it aside, thinking I’d return to it “another day." That that da

Oil on canvas, 40 X 40 inches Exhibiting: Saks Galleries, Denver $6650 framed To purchase About this oil: Sometimes a painting reaches a standstill. This one did, and rather than let it sit unfinished, I decided to take a chance and paint over it, a risky move but one that can lead to surprising results. The inspiration came from a colleague’s evening scene featuring a luminous moon. That image stayed with me and led me to imagine my own version, a moonscape with a descendi

Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Exhibiting: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM $5700 framed To purchase About this oil: This oil painting began during my June Fine Art Workshop in Marshfield, MA, and was completed while teaching my July workshop at my home studio in Colorado. I created it as a demonstration—exploring how to bring together varied, even discordant, colors into a unified and compelling composition. The painting went through several transformations. The

Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches, framed Exhibited: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art , Santa Fe, NM Private collection, la Jolla, CA My thanks to the collector of this oil. About this oil: This piece is inspired by the experiences of living in Colorado, where the natural beauty and vibrant weather encourage frequent outings with friends to explore the landscape, especially in autumn when colors are at their peak. As an artist, I have that in abundance, driving my painter friends in