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Copper Sunset, by James A. Veenstra

Currency:USD Category:Art Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,600.00 USD
Copper Sunset, by James A. Veenstra
This exciting live fine art auction includes 100 lots of original paintings, sculptures and limited edition photographic prints. All paintings are framed or gallery-wrapped.
Artist: James A. Veenstra. Title: Copper Sunset. Size: 9" x 15". Medium: Glass and copper original. Description: I had been hiking all day in one of my favorite mountain haunts. There was a faint tinge of wood smoke that permeated the air. This no doubt was due to the forest fires that had been prevalent and still raged in places that summer further to the west. Like the double edged sword that forest fires can be, so it was for me that day. The smoke while flavorful at first and summoning nostalgia for past camp fires and memories I've shared with friends, also brought a bit of irritation as I breathed it at high elevation. But as the sun began its trajectory ever closer to our atmosphere, the colors, shades, and brilliant hues it beckoned began to go through a dynamic change that left me standing in my boots. My camera came out and I stayed until the sky was nothing but a wash of afterglow, like ash coated coals in a campfire. I knew then that somehow I would try to capture the essence I felt and saw that evening. Towards that end I turned my skills as a glass and metal artist to meld molten copper to glass, and etch glass to create distant hills and mountains, and reflections in lakes that appeared themselves to be lit up and on fire. "Copper Sunset" is the result of that experience and feeling that stopped me in my boots. ( Note: there are two photos of this piece of artwork).