A BREATH OF SALT AIR 

Invitation : “Colors of the Sea Abstracted”

Both my representational and abstract paintings are intuitive, drawing inspiration from the colors and forms I observe in nature at the seaside. In both styles, color...

“The Ever-Changing Beauty of North Sea Harbor”

  From the small dock surrounded by sturdy wooden pilings at North Sea Harbor on Towd Point Road, a unique view of the salt marshes comes into focus. It's a...

“Light, Time, and the Hamptons: An Artist’s View”

Do you ever find yourself weary of the Hamptons' lush beauty? Even when the congested roads test your patience, a glance at the sky can reveal cloud formations and...

Capturing the Sea’s Beauty and Power

Watching an incoming storm over the water is thrilling and gorgeous. You can often be lucky enough to catch the experience at the seashore in the Hamptons.  The storm...

How to Count Waves

I watch waves, searching for the standouts that move me to paint them. I have something in common with surfers: they are also looking to take advantage of the perfect...
Beach Magazine

Beach Magazine

Hi Everyone! Summer has started at a quick pace so we all need a spot to take a moment and reset our our pace, I know I do. I wanted to share one of my tranquil oil paintings that was featured in the Memorial Day issue of Beach Magazine.  This is truly one of my...

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The View Up and Out

The View Up and Out

I've observed it so many times, the full moon just hanging in the atmosphere blazing brightly. The science we learned in school told us that the moon is 238,900 miles away.  We are told that man actually went there and walked on the surface. We've been told that here...

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Where Are We?

Where Are We?

Here is the other painting that is included in Paton Miller's East End Collected 5 at the Southampton Arts Center  April 20-June 9. It has been interesting to come out about my passion for creating this series of Abstract Oil Paintings. Most people know my Seascape...

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Capturing Colored Light

Capturing Colored Light

  Observing changes of color in the sea and sky has lead me to explore a series of geometric abstract oil paintings. I've watched vaporous veils of color change with the amount of humidity in the air and observed how color is nuanced by the sun's light at various...

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Interview with Artfully Walls

Interview with Artfully Walls

 “Casey Chalem Anderson is a Greenwich Village native who creates oil paintings of the Hamptons landscape. She can often be found at the beach, observing the changes in time, color, and weather. To help protect the land and water that is so essential to her paintings,...

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Ocean Clearing Your Head

Ocean Clearing Your Head

Have you had an intense, detailed and emotional phone conversation lately? I just did and I headed right to the ocean to reset. Being at the ocean works to calm me and clarify my thoughts every time. When I see a massive sky over the vast sea my breathing is...

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Magic Ocean

Magic Ocean

Is there something magical about the ocean? I think so, that's why I keep going back to it as a source for contemplative reflection and art inspiration. I found this bit of magic when I was just 10 years old, walking by the shore's edge with a soft breeze blowing and...

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Ocean Memories

Ocean Memories

Do you have a memory of the beach from your childhood? I was around 8 and with my Dad standing on the shoreline in Montauk, New York. The waves were pounding so loudly they were shattering my ears. I had seen the ocean before but this was different…..the waves must...

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5 Second Ocean Painting

5 Second Ocean Painting

  Painting the ocean on this larger scale gives me such a thrill. It is a feeling parallel to being at the beach. I feel a positive emotion in the...

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Ocean Wave- Atmospheric Effects

Ocean Wave- Atmospheric Effects

  Why do we love the beach so much? There is a unique quality experienced at the ocean, an encounter that has no substitute.  It is the essence of what my ocean paintings are about. First, there is the sound that you notice right away. The rhythmic pounding...

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Painting in the Field

Painting in the Field

It's been a hot summer and the day I painted this at Balsam Farms in Amagansett was no exception.  I started the painting in the early morning. By the time I got my general composition down, the heat and humidity were bearing down but I shrugged it off. The wonderful...

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Pacific Ocean vs. The Atlantic

Pacific Ocean vs. The Atlantic

In Malibu, California much of the shoreline is compressed between mountains and the wild energy of the sea. It's quite a different sensation than what I feel walking on a beach at home in the Hamptons.  I feel a bit constricted on the West Coast as if I am squeezed...

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Translucent Wave Surge

Translucent Wave Surge

I like to zero in on the moment when all the energy of a wave rolling toward me explodes back on itself sending bubbles of light up into the air.  I'm amazed at the shapes and colors that are reinvented with every https://orderingmodafinil.com/ tumbling wave. It's...

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Spirited Wave

Spirited Wave

Painting rapidly can capture the sensation of tumbling waves in just a few strokes. I usually take a painting to the next stage and define smaller areas but I like this bold look.  The focus is movement and soft but vibrant color combinations. Continuing on with my...

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Double Wave Burst

Double Wave Burst

Oil paint in variations of blue, green and gray can stir up the feeling of awe and beauty at the ocean. I'm always trying to find new color combinations to bring that sensation to my paintings. Here, there is a dreamlike delicacy in the finely woven greys through out...

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