Hello & Welcome,

A word before you browse:

Thank you for visiting my site — I take great pleasure in crafting and sharing these images.  Instances of my finished work are mostly exhibited (and collected) as 8-color dye-on-paper prints, in signed, limited-editions.  I personally create each print in my studio located in the lower Hudson River Valley’s art region.  

My drive to craft these artworks is rooted in a life-long affinity for the visual arts and an appreciation of artists, from shamanistic cave drawers to modern artists. I’m constantly thrilled by the power of visual images!

You know, for 40 years I managed commercial artists and illustrators in the NY/NJ graphics industry (our clients were creatives and marketers); but it wasn’t until after retirement that I realized I could apply what I’d adsorbed into an art practice of my own.

This image collection contains digitally composed projects as well as re-imagined photographic captures from the natural world. The subject and intent of each art piece determines where along the stylistic continuum I guide it  — if it lets me. Of course, Serendipity is always welcome!

I’m told my images often appear painterly or impressionistic, that they fit into an aesthetic niche between Realism and Abstraction. You’ll see I delight in intimate visual detail, texture, pattern, and color.  You’ll probably notice how recent figurative and non-figurative work is much abstracted — apparently a trend for me.

Fortunately, a growing number of these pieces have been exhibited and some are award-winning (see, About The Artist and Exhibits/Awards). I’ve been invited to exhibit with numerous art groups and art galleries, including: the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (NY);  Emerge Gallery & Art Space (NY); the Garner Arts Center (NY); the Rockland Center for the Arts (NY); Arts Mid-Hudson (NY); Studio Montclair Inc. (NJ); the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (NY); and the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (CA); also on-line galleries such as LightSpaceTime.art; even on the Lisbon-based Portuguese website, Episode Travel with Art.

And, it is gratifying that my artwork appears in private and corporate collections, professional offices, health care institutions, on websites, and in commercial publications and blogs — because that pays the bills! Wink.

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Enjoy your self-guided tour!

          BJ Yarkon
          Artist • Photographer