Landscape engages me in an interior dialogue about its own significance and its relation to the environment and myself. These thoughts generate my final image. I use simple materials oil, brushes, canvas and an antique easel keeps me connected to the past. My composition starts with loose sketches done in vine charcoal. I feel my way through the landscape paying close attention to its shapes and textures. Simplicity and refinement happen only after a detailed draft is executed. I seek the simplification of form in the service of a sophisticated arrangement and design.
When I studied at the School of Visual Arts in the early 1990's, I was influenced by the artists of the Ashcan school and their documentary approach to image making. I chose to abandon the human presence and the subject of everyday life in order to represent the stillness of a scene. The observer’s eye completes the narrative on a human scale.
My paintings invite the viewer to experience the landscape in a personal and expressive way.
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This painting measures 11.5" x 16.25" and is framed to 19" x 23" . Abele's sense...
$500.00
This painting measures 7.5" x 9.5" and is framed to 16" x 18" . Abele's sense...
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This painting measures 11.5" x 16.25" and is framed to 19" x 23" . Abele's sense...
$900.00
Farm Truck is an original oil painting created in 2017 by Robert Abele. The painting is of...
$1,600.00
Freedom & Flight is an original oil painting created in 2017 by Robert Abele. The painting's composition...
$900.00
Late Afternoon Rte 6A Truro is an original oil painting created in 2017 by Robert Abele. The...
$700.00
Nonquitt Cottage is an original oil painting created in 2015 by Robert Abele. It is a quintessential...
$400.00
Orange Buoy is an original oil painting created in 2012 by Robert Abele. The painting is a...
$600.00
Wall of Buoys is an original oil painting created in 2015 by Robert Abele. Wall of...
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This painting measures 12" x 16" and is framed . Abele's sense of light and color...
$1,200.00
This painting measures 12" x 16" and is framed . Abele's sense of light and color...
$1,200.00
This painting measures 12" x 16" and is framed . Abele's sense of light and color...
$1,200.00
This painting measures 16" x 12" and is framed . Abele's sense of light and...
$1,500.00
This painting measures 16" x 20" and is framed . Abele's sense of light and...