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Nature's infinite Moods!
Look at the ocean and feel its relentless energy. Contrast that with the gentle flow of a mountain stream or a lowland marsh at sunrise. See the ebb and flow of the sandunes shaped by the restless ocean wind. When light creates breathtaking effects, the brush moves on its own.
In my 2006 exhibit, the Agora Gallery in SOHO described my paintings this way: Robert Hinkelman's landscapes present a portrait of nature that is ordered and peaceful. His delicate brushstrokes create lush waves and sinewy trees while light flickers on a gently flowing stream. Hinkelman represents nature in all of her moods. His paintings are suffused with an almost tangible immediacy as the viewer recognizes the poignant elegance of a sunset over s field or the crispness conveyed by the clear blue and greens of a noontime sky. The artist shows a keen capacity to capture the subtle hues and nuanced movement of light across a field of grass while also creating an overall tone that is soft, subdued and meditative.
Good paintings capture the light- be it the aura of an early morning sunrise or the moon creating shadows on the water and the sand. I take a unique approach in many of my landscapes by bringing the light forward from the distant horizon to trees or rocks in the foreground to create a glow on the objects. Light is simultaneously far away and right next to you in different forms. Good examples of this in the gallery are, "Last Light on the Marsh", "Sunrise on Nassau Bay" and "Low Country Sunrise".
My paintings are a synthesis of styles- more than enough realism to leave little doubt about the subject blended with a measure of the impressionist style to cause the eye and the mind to work to make the right assumptions. There are those magic moments when scumbling in some foilage in a landscape creates reality for the eye.
My eyes are restive, searching for variety. Here, in these galleries, you will find the savannahs and marshes of the southeast, the sandunes of Florida and Cape Cod, winter in the mountains, morning in the desert and the ever-changing ocean. Capturing the "aha" in nature on canvas- that is the challenge that keeps the mind in overdrive, the brow furrowed, the eyes squinting and the brushes moving.
I have exhibited at the annual Cape Cod Art Show in Barnstable, Ma., the Backus Gallery in Ft. Pierce, Fl., several online galleries and in November, 2006, I was Artist-of-the-Month at the Marsh Rabbit Gallery in Jensen Beach, Fl. Two months ago, a major local charity held a juried art show and advertised on the web. Over 750 paintings were entered with 75 chosen for sale. "Last Light on the Marsh" and "Low Country Sunrise" were among the 75. For the past six months, I have been part of the Treasure Coast Artists, a co-op running the Waterways Gallery in Stuart, Florida.
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