Summer Afternoon Carriage Drive
Art Detail Information:
- Artist Name: Gail D. Guirreri Maslyk
- Height (inches): 28
- Width (inches): 44
- Depth (inches): 2
- Framed: Yes
- Purchase Price (dollars): $3,200.00
Summer Afternoon Carriage Drive at Belle Grey Farm in Upperville Virginia is an oil painting on canvas by Gail Guirreri-Maslyk. Dimesnions of canvas wrapped board is 28"x44".
This composition is from a perfect summer afternoon at a driving event hosted by Belle Grey in Upperville, VA. There was a range of pleasure driving events with horses and ponies. I captured this moment from quite a distance with big lens. I loved the casualness of the driver waiting, horse gently pawing to move off but not needing the reins picked up. I could not have requested a better pose or more dramatic lighting. Moments such as this are meant to be captured. Susie Buchanan was always turned out to the nines according to colleagues.
Painting this canvas during 2020 quarantine helped me start to pull out of a 2 month mood of deep concern. It is hardly over but I feel we will adjust to our new environment, building new business to make up for what has been lost. Art is playing a large part in keeping everyone's mood positive. I am blessed with a farm life, plenty of art materials and good health!
This palette is much different than my normal colors. Phthalo blue and quinacridone magenta were incorporated into naphol scarlet, Winsor and Newton orange, bismuth yellow with titanium zinc oxide. I struggled some with the drawing at first and left it for a month. As I consulted a friend working on sculpture armature to rebuild from scratch, I went back in to my drawing and rebuilt it as well. It was a great day of destructive construction! Working on similar obstacles in tandem over the phone helped to lift the feeling of isolation. My thought that day that is still with me, 'Sculpt with paint, draw in clay'. Using the subconscious mind this way pushes our art.
Hashes: Hunt Country Impressions Byrne Gallery, Transition Period I,
Hunt Country Impressions Byrne Gallery

The Three Huntsmen

Christmas Hound

Upperville Family Class, I

Piedmont Foxhounds at Oakley, 2009

Summer Pleasures, Hound Walk

Cubbing Field Hunters, Field Hunter Championships

Working Forward, a huntsman on the ridge

Full Cry Hounds

The Field Hunter, I

Blue Ridge Hunt Thanksgiving Meet with Graham Buston

Summer Sunrise with Snickersville Hounds

Gone to Ground, OCH Thanksgiving Day

National Sporting Library Polo, I

Hunt Country Impressions Solo Artist Exhibition at Byrne Gallery

Sidesaddle in Purple and Green

Blue Ridge Hunt Races, II

Friesian Mare in the Stables

Champion hunter mare portrait of Rejoice and her colt Quiver

The Sun Bathers, dressage horses resting in water and light

First Field Orange Country Hounds

Cloverlone Mare Field Sunset

Hunting Aside, a portrait of Devon Z

Holsteiner Stallion Portrait, R-Flash-Gordon

Nancy Dillon hunting with Piedmont Fox Hounds, Liz Callar reference photo

Portrait of a Foxhunter in Piedmont Cubbing Season reference photo by Liz Callar

Pony Home the Fieldhunter

Showbiz, a portrait of a grand Dutch KWPN mare by Jazz

Portrait of a Conformation Hunter

The Sun Bathers, II

The Byrne Gallery Artist Reception, Hunt Country Impressions

Hunt Country Impressions Gallery Talk with Gail Guirreri-Maslyk, The Byrne Gallery
Transition Period I

Hunt Landscape, V

Upperville Hunter Hack

Sidesaddle Portrait, I

Sidesaddle Portrait, III

The Grey Mare aft Munnings

Waiting

OCH Hounds, III

Banbury Cross Polo, I

Banbury Cross Polo, II

Christmas Hound

Untamed, a self portrait

Friesians Four in Hand, II

Jockeys at Oatlands Plantation Spring Races

Upperville Grand Prix Jumper, I

Upperville Family Class, I

Stolen in Miami, Grand Prix Jumper Upperville

Working Forward, a huntsman on the ridge

Full Cry Hounds

Jingles, a beagle portrait

Golden Field Hunter

Billy BC Douglas, a portrait

Blue Ridge Hunt Thanksgiving Meet with Graham Buston

Blue Ridge Hunt Races, II

Friesian Mare in the Stables

The Sun Bathers, dressage horses resting in water and light

First Field Orange Country Hounds

Portrait of a Foxhunter in Piedmont Cubbing Season reference photo by Liz Callar

Showbiz, a portrait of a grand Dutch KWPN mare by Jazz

Portrait of a Conformation Hunter

The Sun Bathers, II

Coaching Horses, I aft Sir Alfred Munnings

Coaching Horses II, aft Sir Alfred Munnings

Stallion Gesture Pose I, Summer Shadows

Artist Self Portrait Riding Marvelous Marvin

High Season Polo

Hazy Summer Cloverlone Mare Pasture

Grey Stallion in Winter Sunset

OCH Outrider, III

Stallion Gesture III, Playing with Fire

Four in Hand, WEG 2010

Middleburg Races Outriders Study in Pink

Poor House Farm, plein air study
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