Cattails at Pike’s Pond 2024
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
12″x12″

A personal note about this piece:

Watch the video on the making of this painting.

This oil painting began on-site at Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox, MA. I was captivated by the relationships of textures, reflections, and underwater shadows in the shallow Pike’s Pond. My process for this painting began with rubbing the oil paint with rags into the canvas to get an overall impression and composition before moving to brushes. Ultimately, I finished the details using multiple techniques with a toothpick.

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Harlem River Sunset 2018
Andreas Engel

Acrylic on Canvas
12″x12″

$1800 Unframed.
Interested? Email your request here.

A personal note about this piece:

For many years, I commuted on the Hudson Train Line from the Hudson Valley to NYC. On one such trip, right at the intersection of the Hudson River and the Harlem River, I caught a view of a sunset through a murky train window. The partial abstraction of the view inspired me to make this painting. –Æ

Housatonic Flats 2019
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
12″x12″

$1800 Unframed.
Interested? Email your request here.

A personal note about this piece:

A poetic trail at the Housatonic Flats features beautiful rows of trees and lavender-colored rocket flowers. I have a mind to do a series of paintings at this location. Perhaps this will be a first of many.  –Æ

Fountain Pond 2019
Andreas Engel

Acrylic on Canvas
12″x12″

$1200 Unframed.
Interested? Email your request here.

A personal note about this landscape painting:

Near the foot of Monument Mountain in Great Barrington, MA is a pond, rich with lily pads and wild grass. In this painting, the iconic Peeskawso Peak of Monument Mountain can be seen reflected in the water.  –Æ

Green River Farms 2022
Andreas Engel

Oil on Canvas
9″x12″

NFS
Private Collection.

A personal note about this piece:

This plein-air oil painting was made in a field at Green River Farms in Williamstown, MA. The painting was made primarily with a palette knife accented with details made with a toothpick.  –Æ

Pinto River Sanctuary 1998
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
40″ x 60″

$14,000
Interested? Email your request here.

A personal note about this piece:

This painting is part of a series representing artifacts of recent past necessities. Once commonplace in many regions, this is an outhouse behind the one-room schoolhouse my mom went to in the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada. The small structure left to the elements and the passage of time is a capsule of a once-ubiquitous way of life.

This painting was made with thick layers of oil paint, applied with a palette knife. –Æ