Oil Painting by John Kelley

14′x11″ Oil on Canvas

This scene is from the Westervelt Gardens here in Tuscaloosa Alabama. The gardens are beautiful and start on the top of a bluff and work their way down through arbors and arches to the lake below (Lake Tuscaloosa). I have done four paintings of the gardens and have found them to be very difficult to paint due to the abundance of shapes and colors and the difficulty on deciding on which portion of the abundant subject matter to portray. Jack Warner owns the garden and has been very gracious over the years to allow painters to come and paint there. As most of you may also know, Jack Warner has put together one of the finest collections of American art in the world. It is now housed in the Westervelt Warner Museum.