Welcome

This is an online gallery of  landscape paintings, line-art cartoons, illustrative graphics and other art by John Townes. Thanks for visiting. The site is divided into individual galleries by style and theme.

Photo-Free Zone — No photographs were captured or harmed in the making of these images. They were created by hand with a combination of traditional and digital methods.(Details.)

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Latest News

In May and June 2013, my work is featured in a group show of landscape art at St. Francis Gallery at 1370 Pleasant St. (Route 102) in  Lee, Mass. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fri-Mon. (Phone 413-717-5199).  Stop by if you are in the area.

(All content is Copyright 2013  by John Townes. Please do not use or reproduce any images or material without permission.)

About the Landscapes

The landscapes depict the region that includes Berkshire County in western Massachusetts and the adjacent Hudson River Valley of New York state. They start as sketches of actual locations. As I paint, I do make alterations to emphasize a mood, feeling and sense of place. So, the finished painting does not exactly reproduce the details of the original location, but hopefully sense of it, and qualities that are shared in many other regions.

Prints Available

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Custom,  signed prints of the art on this website are available for purchase. They are available in different sizes, framed or unframed and on archival paper upon request.  For information on prices and options, please contact me by e-mail via the Contact page.

Painting With Pixels

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I use the term “digital painting” instead of “digital art” to describe that aspect of the art I do, because no photographs were captured or harmed in the making of these images. The images were created with  techniques like drawing and painting, but with digital brushes and pencils.  When you tell people an image is “digital art” they often Continue Reading

Site Navigation

Site GuideIn addition to paintings, the site include  line-art cartoons and graphic illustrations and other odds and ends.  The website is organized into galleries by style and themes. You can open a gallery by clicking on its thumbnail from a Galleries page on tyhe top menu or directly by one the links on the side (or below on a mobile viewer) . Within an individual gallery, clicking on a thumbnail will open a  larger version of the image.

Latest News

In May and June 2013, my work is featured in a group show of landscape art at St. Francis Gallery at 1370 Pleasant St. (Route 102) in Lee, Mass. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fri-Mon. (Phone 413-717-5199). Stop by if you are in the area.

Artist’s Statement

In my landscape paintings, my goal is both to reflect the regional qualities of Berkshire County and the Hudson River Valley while also expressing the universal intangible responses that nature and the visual interplay of land, space, light and vegetation … Continue Reading