Erin Dertner, framed oil painting on canvas, inspired by Sonoma County summer blossoms replete with pink-red hollyhocks, white and yellow daisies, with touches of blue and purple, and looking beyond to green fields and gentle hills. Image size 20 inches by 16 inches, framed size 26 inches by 21.5 inches.

A long-time Mendocino plein air artist, Erin is proficient in oils with a palette knife, oils with brushes, watercolors, and acrylics.

  Painting, studying and teaching the subject of light is Erin’s driving force. The cool shadows of the early morning and those that fall long and warm in the evening enliven her creative soul as nothing else. Subject matter is secondary to the sunlight itself, though her locations speak volumes about God’s wondrous world of color, drama and mystery.