Ethel Gittlin’s landscapes spring from an intensely romantic sensibility. What fascinates her and moves her is the landscape of the Mediterranean, and, in particular, the relationship between the land and the sea.
In nearly all of these compositions the sea appears through a screen of vegetation. It functions as a kind of unattainable ‘beyond’ - visible, but never quite attainable.
Gittlin’s paintings have landscape as their declared subject, but really what they try to capture is not so much a place, as the sense of revelation engendered by an encounter with that place.
Gittlin’s work has been shown extensively in United States and Europe and her work is included in such collections as Johnson and Johnson and IBM. Recently in 2006, her works were chosen by Ambassador William Joseph Burns for the United States Embassy in Moscow, 2006.
The 'Light of the Riviera' collection will be shown at The Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, between October 6th and 31st 2007. |
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