Tension
oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
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The Stillness
of the City
JEFF BELLEROSE
What attracts me to the outdoors is the stillness of nature, the subtle loneliness in natural surroundings. Most city paintings try to capture the bustle and noise of the city, the movement and transience of it. My paintings go in a different direction.
Walking around San Francisco, what strikes me are the late afternoon shadows, the strong contrasts and the setting sun. There is a stillness here too, a permanence to the structures and the passing of the day, a subtle loneliness to the city just before night falls.
Many of my paintings are an attempt to capture the stillness deep in the city shadows.
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