Title: Through the Fields
Artist: Monique Sakellarios
Medium & Materials: Oil on Masonite board
Dimensions: 5" x 7"
Gallery Overview
Through the Fields is a jewel-like miniature plein-air landscape that captures the warmth and quiet wonder of a sunlit New England pasture at twilight. Painted in oil on Masonite board, Monique Sakellarios brings together a winding country path, violet fields, a distant farmhouse, and a luminous sky in an intimate work filled with movement, atmosphere, and nostalgic charm.
Artwork Description
Across a compact 5" x 7" vertical panel, Monique creates a richly textured countryside scene with remarkable atmospheric presence. The composition is built around a low horizon, giving the soaring twilight sky a sense of scale while allowing the lower third to bloom with intense seasonal color. Thick impasto strokes of lavender, plum, and deep violet suggest wild clover, lavender, or meadow flowers catching the day’s final light.
Figure, Landscape & Collector Appeal
The painting’s narrative center is a small strolling figure moving away along the path, set between the warm terracotta tones of the earth and the cool violet field beyond. A soft lavender farmhouse anchors the left side of the scene, while a loose, voluminous shade tree brings movement and balance on the right. Above the distant hills, broad strokes of champagne cream, buttery yellow, peach, periwinkle, and lavender-plum create a radiant sky filled with late-day light. Intimate in scale yet abundant in color and texture, Through the Fields offers collectors a refined impressionist landscape with warmth, charm, and enduring visual appeal.
Style & Composition
- Artistic Style: Contemporary Impressionism, Plein-Air Tonalism, and regional New England landscape painting.
- Composition: Low-horizon vertical portrait arrangement built around a central path that leads the eye into the landscape, balanced by a farmhouse on the left, a shade tree on the right, and an expansive cloud-filled sky above.
- Focal Point: The small gestural figure near the center midground, where the dark silhouette contrasts with the glowing yellow horizon and surrounding violet fields.
- Color Palette: Rich plum, lavender, violet, and periwinkle balanced by champagne cream, soft gold, peach, terracotta, and fresh olive green.
- Lighting & Atmosphere: Backlit sunset and twilight warmth filter across the pasture, casting the fields into soft shadow while filling the sky with a peaceful, glowing countryside mood.
Application & Technique
- Brushwork / Mark-Making: Loose, physical, and heavily layered, with thick horizontal blocks and short impasto ridges building the wildflower texture, contrasted by broad multidirectional scumbling in the cloud forms.
- Layering & Depth: Saturated purple foreground passages pull the eye forward, while softer lavender hills and luminous cloud layers recede into atmospheric distance.
- Materials: Heavy-body oil paint on prepared Masonite board, allowing for crisp boundaries, rich impasto texture, and the expressive energy of each color passage.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping / Pickup: Shipping is available, with items securely packaged in professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally; complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
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