Original Mixed Media on Canvas No. 41106, by Carolyn Cole. Original Price: $3,200

Design Plus Gallery presents an original painting by Carolyn Cole. No. 41106 is mixed media on canvas, with minimal wood frame. Two other paintings by artist may be available.

Cole sometimes employs the language of landscape painting to discuss her paintings, referring to a work’s horizon, or noting the source for a certain shape as the Oregon roadside or the shore. Yet, her works have an atmospheric quality, indeed, a depth and an undeniable mystery, that take them beyond the observed towards the imagined. Part of this derives from Cole’s compositional strategies: grid contradicts horizon; horizons rarely meet the edges of the canvas; and the sheer power of her color, that all conspire to foil the notion of landscape and reinforce the viewer’s experience of a separate, previously undiscovered, world. In the end, it is the uniqueness of Cole’s vision, honed over years of disciplined work and masterfully executed, that draws us to, and holds us in, this floating world of her making..