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BERNARD HEALEYin his Marin County Studio, Mill Valley, California

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Fine Art by Bernard Healey

"LAND WATER SKY"

Visionary landscape moods and impressions of his Beloved Marin and the California Waterways

Acrylic Landscapes
Wood Intarsias
Abstract art
Fine Art Books

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bernard Healey is a long time Marin County resident who loves the coast and the natural land and water that make Marin a paradise. Most of his painting career has been focused on landscapes and waterscapes in acrylic paints on canvas. He favors heavy brush strokes and impasto combined with delicate washes, giving vigor and movement to his cloud formations and mist arising from the wetlands. The California coast has always provided an endless source of inspiration for his paintings.

After studying at the San Francisco Art Institute and other Bay Area art schools, he chose to forego the rigid academic approach and developed his own style. His personal inquiry into space, color, and light has helped him express the mood and sweeping power of local scenery rather than to simply illustrate it. Bernard Healey's award winning works have been exhibited in may solo and juried shows throughout California. His work is in collections across the United States and in Europe.

Though Bernard Healey considers his painting style to be plein air, he is most often found in his studio painting from loose impressions of local scenes, memories gathered from many forays in the area and photographs taken on site. These "washy" personal interpretations have made his work more about the mood of the landscape than the place itself. Also, familiarity with local beaches inspires the creation of wood assemblages from found objects. These intarsias are now in many private collections and galleries.

Art studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late forties influeneced much of his abstract and impressionist work.

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Landscape Moods

Impressions in Acrylic

Plein Air Fine Art

Bernard Healey
Mill Valley, California

"It has always been difficult for me to

express my work with words. As with

most artists, it is with brushes, paint and

canvas that I communicate best. I really

do more than look at a tree or clouds or

a cliff. I spend a large bit of my creative

time really seeing a subject before I

paint it. I have always had a compulsion

to record it in my own way so I can tell a

viewer how I see a scene and how I

experience it." ~ B. Healey

F BOOK COVER

Selection of Bernard Healey

paintings available to view,

lease or purchase at

Marin Society of Artists

http://www.marinsocietyofartists.org

30 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
Ross, CA 94957
(415) 454-9561

Art by the Creek: The California Landscape in Acrylic with Bernard Healey

Bernard Healey collection

includes Inland Water Scenes

and Landscapes surrounding

San Francisco Bay. His art work

is in collections all over the

United States and in Europe.

"My Navy years in both the North and

South Pacific were my first

introduction to the wonder and power

of this great ocean. I was 19 years

old. Later during the eighties and

nineties I acquired a boat and took

hundreds of photographs of the Marin

Coast and inland waterways."

~ B.Healey