COLORFUL ORIGINAL LANDSCAPES

Rural Western Landscape Paintings      

A display of K. Joann Russell's oil paintings of farm lands and western ranches in the Northwest, colorful watercolors and acrylic paintings of rural scenes.

Western United States locales provide her with sources for her landscape paintings and prints. A native of California, she used pastels for her first landscapes as a student in the San Francisco Bay area. She remembers being surprised by the encouraging commendations of her 8th grade art teacher. She was only having fun with the vibrant colors in depicting familiar landmarks.

Her love for rural landscapes grew out of memorable childhood experiences at her grandparents' ranch in the foothills of the San Joaquin Valley and her parents' rural property in the Los Gatos area.  When her family moved to a ranch in Southern Oregon their horses went with them, and cattle became an important part of their life.

Pacific Ocean Seascapes

Light, colors, and spacious vistas in California, Oregon, and Washington  attract her attention as an artist. Beaches top the list of her favorite places. Summers at the Pacific Ocean beaches give her images for colorful seascape paintings.

The painting above of an Oregon beach, "Siletz Bay", a 20 x 16" acrylic on canvas, graced the cover of the Spring Hill Review magazine, a Journal of Northwest Culture, for the month of June, 2002.

Click on an image below to view a larger photo of the painting, details about the art plus online shopping access.   If you are interested in purchasing a landscape painting and want to be notified when a new painting becomes available, please  send an e-mail .

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"Summer Ranch" 8 x 10" oil	"Swan Lake Series #5" 8 x 10" oil	Original Sold Prints Available
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Comments from collectors "Thank you so much, I just LOVE the painting!" "Your style touches something in my heart..." Allison - CA "I loved your paintings of the moving water. I live close to Glacier Park, and I deal with a great many artists in the valley. It is very difficult to find someone who captures running water as well as you do. I also love that you concentrated on the water and made it the center of interest instead of the fauna surrounding them. Delightful pieces that bring the viewer to a place of solitude and reflection." Rocky - MT
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