Michael Somerscales

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KOA CLUB 47" x 53" 1995

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KAWALA BASIN #1 1995 41" x 45"

Boat images from Hawaii and other locations preoccupied me for a while.
HALEKONIA 1994

At 84" x 132" this is my largest canvas to date. Inspired by many visits to Maui, it is actually a composite of plants in the Cli…
MRS WALES' GARDEN

View from my bedroom window in North London painted on a return visit for old times sake. Early Impressionism still pulls at the…
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Some works on paper from early 1990's pinned up on the garage wall. Even a 400 square foot space is small when shared with the fa…
SHELL STATION

54" x 72" . oil on canvas . Our move to Missouri gave me garage space to work on larger paintings. I started using photos as an a…
APARTMENT ON YOLO AVE.

1976 oil on paper. View across the street. I became obsessed with angles and diagonals for a time.
DECK WITH TREE

22" X 28" . oil on board.
EL CERRITO UNDERPASS

approx 22" x 22". oil on paper. The East Bay provided an interesting mix of subject matter.
PATIO CHAIRS AND MAT

21 X 26" 1976. oil on paper. Smaller works were the norm during the early years after college.
MFA graduate show, Stanford 1975

Opposite view.
MFA graduate show, Stanford 1975

I reverted to representational work around this time after the large Berkeley abstracts.
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BERKELEY FIGURE STUDY image 9
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Figure drawing was strongly emphasized at Berkeley
SFO APARTMENT c1970

A view of our living room on California and Divisidero
Untitled 1970

Undergraduate excercise
KITCHEN UTENSILS #2

1968 16" x 20' oil on board. Veering towards abstraction a la Georges Braque.

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