La Velle’s Gallery of Fine Art showing and selling paintings by nationally known artists, Ed La Velle, Robert Wood and Eugene Garin.  You will be amazed at the size and scope of the original oil landscapes and seascapes on display – masterpieces of translucent waves dashing against implacable rocks; redwood groves you feel you can walk into; and massive oaks overshadowing fields of lupines.oil painter ed la velle

Ed La Velle’s love of nature is reflected in his subject matter.  When asked what makes his paintings so popular, Ed said, “I just try to paint as close as I can to the scene’s original beauty.”  Many of his paintings are of scenes in rural Lake County, and literally hundreds of them were done on the La Velle ranch, which was not a working ranch, but a painting ranch, “an artist’s paradise” as Ed referred to it.

According to Alex Dzigurski, world famous artist and art critic, La Velle’s paintings “reflect the all-important quality of ‘feeling’; and the manner in which he finishes his work indicates a true mastery of painting technique.”