Title: Greens Cliff
Artist: Sandra Kavanaugh
Medium: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 24" × 18"
Overview
Greens Cliff is a dramatic vertical mountain landscape by contemporary New England artist Sandra Kavanaugh. This original 24" × 18" pastel captures a sunlit cliff rising above a rugged evergreen valley, balancing warm golden light with cool mountain shadow and atmospheric depth.
Why Collect This Work
Bold in scale and mood, Greens Cliff brings the grandeur of a New England mountain vista into a richly textured pastel format. The composition draws the viewer upward from dense valley evergreens and tangled brush toward a striking cliff face illuminated by low, warm sunlight.
Cool lavender-gray shadows, deep forest greens, violet undertones, and a pale cream sky deepen the sense of distance and atmosphere. The contrast between rugged rock, dark evergreens, and glowing light gives the artwork a strong sense of place, movement, and mountain drama.
Highlights
- Original artwork: One-of-a-kind pastel painting by Sandra Kavanaugh.
- Mountain subject: A sunlit cliff face rising above dense evergreens, tangled valley brush, and distant mountain ridges.
- Atmospheric mood: Dramatic, rugged, and light-filled, with warm sunlight breaking through a cool overcast sky.
- Appealing palette: Canary yellow, warm gold, soft ochre, lavender-gray, deep violet, dark forest green, and pale cream.
- Display appeal: A striking 24" × 18" vertical format suited for a living room, study, office, hallway, mountain home, or New England landscape collection.
Technique and Surface
- Medium: Professional-grade soft pastels on premium fine art paper.
- Technique: Energetic layered scumbling and varied pastel strokes create contrast between rugged texture and atmospheric softness. Heavier marks build the cliff’s physical volume, while wispy blending in the sky and distant ridges enhances depth.
- Composition: The vertical format is anchored by dense, dark evergreens and tangled valley brush in the lower third. From this shadowed base, the eye moves upward along a diagonal ridge toward the prominent sunlit rock face.
- Style: Contemporary Impressionism with plein-air influence, emphasizing warm mountain sunlight, cool valley shadows, and regional landscape forms.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping / Pickup: Shipping is available worldwide. Each artwork is securely packaged in professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally. Complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
