About the Artist
I am primarily a self-taught artist with diverse themes and styles. My creative decisions are guided by my immediate interests and sensibilities. I create works that feel right to me. Creating a mood is paramount in my art. It is the mood that first draws me to an idea, and it is the mood that evolves while painting that drives the final work.
My works gravitate towards subtle, introspective moods whether they are landscapes, figurative, cityscapes, or other themes. Viewers are pulled into unique quiet worlds created by colors, shapes, perspective, and reducing compositional elements. Even my more expansive scenes pull you back to a small, private world.
I work in oils in my studio. Most of my works in recent years derive mainly from my imagination or sketches. Inspiration comes from a fleeting scene, a studied observation, an abstract notion, a phrase, a quick sketch, anything that suggests a compelling mood. I also will work from photographs I take while traveling.
– Clay Sneller
- Title: Tears in the Fabric Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: Sidewalk of Rue de la Trelle, France Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: Old Wall, Sibiu Medium: Oil on Cavnas
- Title:Old Wall, Merida Mexico Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: Old Wall, Cluj Napoca, Romainia Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: Sunset over the Danube Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: A Night in Vienna Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Title: Sidewalk of Rue de la Trelle, France Medium: Oil on Canvas