Gerard Erley

 
         
 
 

Gerard Erley is a landscape painter who brings an emotional response to nature into his work. Erley’s oil paintings of the landscape at first seem purely representational, but as one looks at them more closely, they cross over into a depiction of emotion that can only be felt through the subjective experience of a place. Erley uses lush color in particular to suggest a mood. He says of his work, “I seek to discover the poetry in a solitary tree or a passing cloud and to communicate that poetry in paint.”