Impressionist Photography

Fine art painterly images for a calm, soft look in your home or office.

Impressionist photography offers the kind of calm your home or office deserves.

“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”
–Paramahansa Yogananda

During the turn of the century, architecture offered opulence, extravagance, and grandeur in a theatrical manner.

The serenity of a quiet garden is balanced around a Japanese Yukimi-doro or snow-viewing lantern.

The Buddhist Byodo-In Temple in Oahu,Hawaii evokes feelings of enlightenment and mysticism cloaked in clouds dropping down the tropical hillside.A beautiful Buddhist wall art print in an impressionist photography style.

Spend a dreamy afternoon touched by a warm breeze. Close your eyes to listen closer to the hint of peaceful bird songs. Smell fresh cut grass layered with a hint of flower blossoms. Dream of a day in the garden with no cares other than the wish that a quartet of string musicians would walk up to the gazebo.

Vacation on a lake, sit back in your chair and watch geometric grids reflecting on the surface. Water ipples add another dimension to this green and blue soothing abstract.

The shimmer of the slow moving Merced River in Yosemite seems to bend the trunks of cottonwood trees lining the banks. A calming nature art print.

To the Aztec's, the agave represented long life, health, and fertility. Today, we think of tequila. For whatever reason you are drawn to agave, enjoy this impressionistic agave print surrounded by snow.

Abstract bamboo leaves tussle in the wind in a tropical garden. Symbolic of flexibility and resilience, encourage the spirit of going with the flow by including this image in your living space.

Simplified, gently rounded corners that mimic adobe walls, a fusion of realism and abstraction of the Grand Canyon. Bring comfort to your living space with this abstract wall art.

An aspen grove seems to stretch upward as the late afternoon light filters through the trees.

A garden of red flowers seems to blow in the wind. Invite this soft pop of color and summer feeling into your home.

Winter shadows cast long and far into the canyon. Is that a shark fin? This abstract art print will have you wondering.

Translucent petals in motion change a simple subject of a flower into a form that deserves study. When you want to really see deep into the essence of a situation, let this flower be your muse.

An impressionistic setting of palm trees with a playful flower waving in the wind. A wonderful way to bring a tropical fun feeling into your world.

Hear the crunch of pine needles underfoot, notice the small wildflowers blooming in a carpet of green grass, and feel the soft touch of afternoon light reaching into the forest. The right touch for a mountain home.

Ocean waves gently advancing to the shore in a dreamy, peaceful, soft look. Wherever your tranquil place is, magnify that peace with this ocean at sunset.

Mountains make me feel like I'm in the company of royalty. During this sunset, the mountains seemed silhouetted in purple, and the sky coordinated in shades of lilac and fuschia. Invite them into your castle as a striking art print.

Spherical and cylindrical forms glow in the night sky with water reflections. Blue abstract art with contemporary forms, stunning in an entry.

Create a focal point in your interior design with movement photography art.

Impressionist photography allows you to absorb a place and time.

Movement photography creates an impression of a scene, a dreamy, soft, painterly feeling. Normally, we use cameras to capture sharp detail. But life is in motion, so why shouldn’t art also be moving? Especially when it allows us a rich experience.

If Monet were alive today and had the benefit of a digital camera in hand, would he create the gentle brushstrokes by blurring photos with movement? Perhaps his impressionist photography series would include the subtle motion of a breeze stirring up a patch of red flowers in a green field of grass. Maybe he’d capture the tussling of the branches in a tree. I believe he would have created amazing blur photo effect art.

Intentional camera motion as a technique frees me from traditional rules of photography, much like the visible brush strokes freed the impressionist painters of long ago. I express the emotion of what is before me instead of the details. For the viewer, the blurring effect frees your mind. You can imagine what you’d hear if you were in that place, what you’d smell, and who you might be with instead of analyzing the concrete nature of a normal photograph. The abstract image slows your pace down. And at each viewing of an impressionist photography wall print, you’ll experience new sensations and discoveries.

One of the effects of a long exposure time to blur part of the photo is that beautiful gradient colors emerge. Several of the painterly images for sale in this collection are great examples of colorful abstract art. Setting the camera in motion blended upbeat colors into geometric abstract art images. I fell in love with the lines and swirls, which give off a fun, youthful vibe.

Abstract impressionism photography gives us a way to view natural scenes in a new light. Take a new look at autumn, one that dances, swirls, turns, and rushes on by. Abstract fall colors open you to new sensations about how fast the season blurs by. Or see how trees seem to stand up taller and stretch out their limbs in communion with the rest of the forest.

Impressionist photography also draws us into new perceptions of traditional landscapes. First, we behold the treasures of rich golds, blushing reds, and royal purples that we may not have noticed before. Then, as the sun sets in the desert, melting into a mountain range, you can hear the lyrics of “purple mountains majesty” from that voice inside.

Rugged rock formations of canyons, wind-swept vistas, and vast spaces open up to us, drawing us into an abstract land: a place where we no longer have the precision of sharp horizons and solid ground but a gentle place where we can rest.

I love how practicing intentional camera motion requires reflection, where I must immerse myself in the mood of a place before I begin. This type of art emphasizes a deeper appreciation of the little moments. For instance, as I sat at a pool one day, I realized that after a swimmer had completed several laps, the surface of the pool was dancing. But it wasn’t only the waves that created that image of dancing. The fence line around the pool was casting shadows. The clouds diffused the sunlight, creating patterns of shifting abstract geometry. I got a few funny looks from the other sunbathers at the pool, but I had to try to photograph this ephemeral design.

Impressionist Photography

Fine art painterly images for a calm, soft look in your home or office.

Impressionist photography offers the kind of calm your home or office deserves.

Create a focal point in your interior design with movement photography art.

Impressionist photography allows you to absorb a place and time.

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