artbybartholomew.com
California Impressionist Style
Sunland California

I have spent a lifetime trying to duplicate light and color in oil paintings.  I have had many great teachers, each have taught me aspects of how to do the "trick" of duplicating nature....Larry Gluck, Julie Snyder, and Michael Dancer; Alfred Tse, and more recently I have had the pleasure of taking lessons from Jennifer McChristian. 

 

I have been taught by the French Impressionists, especially Cezanne and Pissaro...also the California Impressionists such as Dana Bartlett, Granville Redmond, and Guy Rose. 

 

I am a member of the Angeles Crest Artist's Guild, the California Art Club, and the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association.  I recently won an award in the oil/landscape juried exhibition of the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association for one of my paintings of the San Fernando Mission.  The painting was hung in the new Gallery at the San Gabriel Mission. 

Since I was born and raised in the Los Angeles Area and spent a great deal of time traveling with my family all over the western states, I have a special fondness for the Western States landscapes, especially the Southern California. I am an avid reader of California history: the California missions, the gold rush, the orange fields of Redlands, the railroads (my grandparents worked for Fred Harvey at the Grand Canyon when the Southern Pacific created the spur to the Grand Canyon enabling thousands to view the grandeur of the canyon), and try to depict the atmospere of this rich past.

Thanks for looking at my work.  I have enjoyed each one, and in the words of John Singer Sargeant, "Every time I sell a painting, I lose a friend" but also gain a knowledge they went to a good home where a special person would appreciate them.