Snowy Landscapes (Acrylic on Canvas)

I could be mistaken but I don't believe these are the first Whatleys we've exhibited here. They are not great but they are certainly very good. I hope that doesn't come off seeming as if I am "Damning with Faint Praise" because these works are without a doubt in the Top Ten Percent of the almost 500 paintings on display here at the (Value) Village Art Gallery. But (and here's the downside) there is something about these paints that simply does not grab me. They are sparse and spare and minimalist, which is fine, but with three of them all in the same place here I find myself wondering if maybe they are sparse and spare and minimalist because that's all the artist has or is capable of. These paintings feel like...NPCs almost. Unfinished. Smooth and Characterless. The tree branches for example. If this is the Artist's intentional Style or Millieu or whatever, that's fine. It's just not one that grabs me at the time of this writing. Maybe it'll grow on me.