Homage to Margaret Grimes

Margaret Grimes (1943-2020) was a landscape painter and Art Professor whom I taught with at Chauatuqua Art Institution. Grimes found her motifs in densely overgrown and ungroomed places, and this scene reminded me of her work. Such scenery is very well suited for my style which incorporates unconventional compositions, vivid texture, gestural painting marks, emphasized color and other features of 21st century painting, along with a solid Academic foundation and use of the Old Master’s techniques.

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Ilya Lerner was born in Moscow, Russia in 1966. He emigrated in 1989 and, after living in several cities and states, currently resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Lerner holds Master of Fine Arts degree from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and taught extensively throughout United States. His paintings were subject of more than twenty art shows, received important awards and are included in important museum, corporate and private collections.