Leni Berliner

My goal in painting landscapes is to share my sense of the energy of a place with the viewer. Before photographing an area, often a National or State Park, I apply exercises from figure drawing - timed gesture, 1-and 2-step contour - to identify the feeling inherent in a scene of water, rocks, and trees; I paint primarily in the studio. The result is a style I call American Modernist, with others seeing a resonance with Finnish jugendstil painter Askeli Gallen-Kallela. My landscapes, made primarily in acrylic, occasionally combined with other media, are well represented on my website.

I also occasionally paint from my imagination, and since the onset of the pandemic, I have had increasing success in doing so. The image shown of “Meditators Make the Weather - Thought Bubbles” is an imaginary painting completed in October of 2020.

I was an artist in high school and then didn't paint again for about 30 years when I studied drawing at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Painting has reoriented my life; it centers me and gives me a way to bring some beauty to a world that needs it. My work has been showing several venues in Washington, DC, and New York City and is hanging in private homes throughout the US.