Irmeli Ylinen Artworks Gallery

• Princess Suzy

  Charcoal, Paper, 16" x 13". Dear Suzy, my son's sweet and gentle dog, a rescue dog, deserves to be a princess and have a crown!

• Lost In Thought

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 14" x 11"

• Sunny Lily Pond

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10"

• Wind In Her Hair

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 14" x 18"

• Lost Island

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 9" x 12". The scene of the painting is from along the Potomac River in Virginia where I was plein air painting. The way the sun illuminated the grasses looked somewhat mysterious to me. I worked mor…

• Isabel in the Morning

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 16". The model's gaze seems inward and quiet, as if she is contemplating her day ahead.

• Wine and Roses

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10". I started to paint this vineyard scene on location at the lovely Pearmund Cellars Winery in Northern Virginia and finished it at my studio.

• Path to Serenity

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10". I was walking around the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Virginia looking for a scene to paint. The dreamy bench was irresistible and I started to paint finishing the painting late…

• Early Sunrise

  Oil, Panel, 18" x 14". My getting up in the dark, before sunrise, was rewarded with this colorful sky. I quickly took some photos to work from to create the painting.

• Garden Retreat

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 9" x 12". I found this delightful scene at the grounds of The Marshall House, a historic house museum in Leesburg, Virginia. I painted on location and finished the painting at my studio.

• Standing Strong

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 9" x 12". After a storm, the waterline of the Potomac River in Virginia was very high. The struggling tree got my attention; I started the painting on location at the Great Falls Park and finished i…

• Lavender Garden

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 9" x 12". I was plein air painting at a lovely lavender farm in Virginia. I continued to finish the painting in my studio.

• Contemplating

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 12"

• Timeless Through Ages

  Oil, Linen, 17" x 18". In 2018, while visiting the city of Vicenza in Northern Italy, I went to see the famous Renaissance country palace of Villa Capra, La Rotonda (1567) by Andrea Palladio which is part of a group of…

• Blue Star

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 9". I began to paint this painting while I attended the 2019 Figurative Art Convention & Expo, FACE, at Williamsburg, Virginia, where several models were set up there in the evenings for artis…

• Green Field Barn

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 6". Plein Air painting of Virginia countryside.

• Lily Pond

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 14" x 11". I began the painting en Plein Air in the countryside of Virginia on a very hot and humid summer day and finished it in my air conditioned studio!

• Tulip Field

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 6" x 8". I was Plein Air painting in a garden center in Virginia. Their spring time tulip field was fun to paint!

• Once Upon A Time In Tuscany

  Oil, Linen, 18" x 14". While driving around in the Tuscan countryside, I had to stop to look at the storybook like scene!

• Sunny Vineyard

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 12". In Abruzzo, in Italy, I came across this memorable small vineyard

• Aleksi

  Oil, Linen, 16 x 14. Portrait of the artist's son

• Morning at River

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 9" x 12". There was a jewel like sparkling of colors at the Jones Beach Park, in Alexandria, in Virginia. This shed was part of a couple of historic buildings on the Potomac River. The painting bega…

• Beyond the Bridge

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 8". I began this painting on location at the Manassas Battlefield Park in Virginia and finished the painting in my studio.

• Pages And A Memory

  Oil, Linen, 14" x 11" x 3/4"

• Orchid Tale

  Oil, Canvas, 11" x 14"

• Balance

  Oil, Linen, 14" x 18"

• Orchid Stripes

  Oil, Canvas, 10" x 8"

• Aleksi

  Charcoal, Paper, 14" x 14". A charcoal drawing of the artist's son

• Espresso Cup

  Linen, 12 x 12

• Lemon

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 8"

• Kite Flyer

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 24". I saw a young man running and flying a kite in the State Arboretum of Virginia; perfect subject for a painting!

• Sous Chef

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 9"

• Summer Lake

  Oil, 8" x 10"

• Pink Dot Orchid

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 8"

• Rock Meadow

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 24". I like the way horses many times are so still, they almost blend into the landscape. Here I spotted a rocky field in the State Arboretum of Virginia and placed a horse I saw somewhere else into t…

• Anna

  Charcoal, Paper, 15" x 13". Created during a portrait workshop I took with artist Casey Childs.

• Rolling Hills

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 10" x 8"

• Aleksi

  Oil, 14" x 11". I painted this portrait of my son when he was 13 years old. It was nice to capture him in his early teenage years.

• Red Company and Jar

  Oil, Linen, 24" x 26"

• Sunset Encounter

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16". Driving in the Virginia countryside I came across some horses on a field and this young colt with the golden setting sun illuminating it's fur.

• Country Garden

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 12". The painting is sold without a frame and via my Etsy store site at www.etsy.com/shop/IrmeliArt

• Ozy And Jackie

  Oil, 14" x 18". The young man, Ozy, commissioned me to paint this portrait of him and his girlfriend Jackie. The painting was a Valentine's Day present for her! I painted it from a selfie Ozy had taken with his phone. I…

• Hot Air

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20". Virginia spring countryside with hot air balloons in the sky.

• At the River

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10"

• Orchid Whisper

  Oil, Canvas, 6" x 8". Orchids are my weakness; this one was so delicate with nice pink hues.

• Blue Road

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 20". Winter late afternoon scene of a dirt road in the State Arboretum of Virginia offered an interesting composition and colors to work with.

• Spring River

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 9"

• Asian Pear

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10". This perfectly round Asian pear caught my eye in a farmers market - I just had to buy it and paint it, it was delicious too!

• Foggy Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16". Early morning fog rising on a pond near Charlottesville, Virginia.

• All Abroad

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 10" x 8". The painting is sold without a frame and via my Etsy store site at www.etsy.com/shop/IrmeliArt

• Orchid

  Oil, Canvas, 5" x 7". I had to buy this orchid when I saw it; the random dots on it were so fun to paint!

• Reflecting

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 36". Interesting place to go to where I went for walks sometimes while living in Florida; Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach. Beautiful scenery and alligator sigh…

• Fall Pond

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 8" x 10". This colorful painting is a plein air painting which I painted at a nearby park.

• Serenity

  Oil, Canvas, 40" x 30". In Italy on top of a mountain I once saw an amazing cloud like this! Several years later I found my snapshot of it and started planning to paint it - the land, river and mountains I imagined into…

• Garden Path

  Oil, Linen on Panel, 12" x 9". Fall colors in a gardens park where I painted the painting en plein air

• Reclining

  Oil, Canvas, 40" x 36". A cold winter day along the Shanandoe River in Virginia. The winter blue green colors and reflections on the river were irresistible!

• Buona Sera

  Oil, Canvas, 11" x 14". A memorable sunset I saw on vacation in Tuscany one time.

• Jump

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36". Italian countryside is so delightful! This is somewhere there on the road, I think near Gubbio.

• Peace

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 48". I took a photo of this awesome low hanging cloud on vacation in the Caribbean one time - some years later, I painted it - the scene felt very peaceful and calm.

• Pleasure

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16". While living in Florida, I often went to walk on the beach, it was always so awesomely pleasurable! I wanted to paint the beach to remind me of it, hence the name Pleasure for the painting.

• Vacation

  Oil, 20" x 24". I saw some palm trees and the sky with clouds like this in Naples, Florida one time and was inspired to paint the scene but imagined the scene with a beach instead of cars on a street. The boy in the lig…