Seamus Berkeley
@seamusberkeley@seamusberkeley.com
Seamus Berkeley has been creating paintings, photographs and prints in a variety of genres for decades. Dublin-born, Berkeley lives in Taos, New Mexico and travels extensively for inspiration for his paintings and photographic images.His paintings and images are extensively collected, both nationally and internationally, most of which is commissioned fine art paintings. He uses oils as his primary painting medium, focusing on a variety of subjects in a representational impressionistic style and digital camera and phone for his exploration of the natural world.
What motivates him to create artwork is that serve as reminders to the viewer of our existence in and as part of nature. The primary goal is to make artwork that reflects his personal experience of memorable moments of being alive. Artwork has the potential to evoke a similar memorable experience for the viewer.
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Moon Over Moraga
Sometimes nature aligns to present a scene that includes a little bit of everything: a bright sliver of a rising moon, the warm hues of a setting sun, the cool blues of clouds in shadows, the pinpoints of emerging stars, the deep blue of the evening sky, the violets of distant hills, and the dark…
How to Get Back to Painting After a Long Break?
Answering Your Painting Questions: How to Get Back to Painting After a Long Break? A painting student asked me about what would be the process for getting back to painting after having taken a long break. This videos offers some suggestions on how to do that.
Update on Framing an Oil Painting
Daffodil painting: Daffodil painting framed:
Details on Framing an Oil Painting
Daffodil painting: Daffodil painting framed:
Monochrome: Man In Beret
A monochromatic painting of a local artist who posed for a session of the weekly meetings of the Taos Society of Portrait artists. Creating the likeness of a model in monochrome is a practice of seeing people as they are with concentrated attention to details of the face. This process can open new ways to…
‘Every Moment is Sacred’ Podcast with Rain Stickney
Interview with Rain Elizabeth Stickney on her ‘Every Moment is Sacred’ podcast. This episode is ‘Nature Speaks in Silence’. Rain’s notes about this podcast: Born in Dublin and living in Taos, New Mexico, Seamus Berkeley gently shares with us the profound practice of entering the contemplative realm through one’s visual experience. A professional and very…
‘Full Moon II’ Giclée
Robyn Comfort was inspired to write about this piece. You can read her poem ‘Sugar Moon’ and her thoughts about this artwork on Artful Awareness. Museum quality giclées of this piece and more are available for purchase on this site and affordable prints and other artful reminders are available on the Artful Awareness shop. Here…
Diane Rodriguez
“The painting I have by Seamus has a special spot in my heart because I know the artist, and I know the property [featured in the painting]. It brings back so many wonderful, warm memories of the time I lived in Taos. I love it!”
Fleeting Florals: Calla Lily Yellow
Calla lilies! Decided it was time to paint another one, went out looking for white ones and discovered there are yellow ones, too! That looked like fun to paint, so brought one back to the studio and chose to do another painting knife piece. Just as in the white Calla Lily piece, the challenges of……