The Oil Painter’s Color Handbook, 2022
Two of Palden Hamilton’s paintings were included as plates in Monacelli Press’s book, which compiled reproductions by today’s leading contemporary realist artists
Fine Art Connoisseur, 2020
Palden Hamilton was featured as one of “Five to Watch”. The article shows “Debutante”, oil on panel, 2020
“Hamilton’s paintings of people leave a particularly indelible impression, with each person posed in different manners and lighting suitable to the mood or message he wants to convey. The artist excels at subtly making his observations and opinions on the individual’s circumstances known, while drawing comparisons to the human condition and culture at large.”
Plein Air Magazine, 2019
Plein Air Magazine’s “11 Rising Stars to Add to Your Collection” 2020 feature
“Palden is a master at creating paintings that exhibit design precision and artistic skill that captivates and carries the viewer throughout the painting. His subject matter is broad. Figurative, landscape, or still life, each painting has a way of evoking familiar feelings, a sense of touch, emotion, or memory. Poetry, brilliance, and beauty at once.”
-Lillian K. Ansley, co-founder, Olmsted Plein Air
“I am reminded of the perfectly executed salon painting that line the walls of the Louvre for miles on end. They leave one cold—as all perfect things eventually do. With that feeling (or rather lack of feeling) still fresh, one understands why modernism happened—it had to. I would venture that the contemporary Realist Movement has arrived at a similar historical moment that defined the last days of academic painting—questioning what is good, real and true. However this go around the collective response from realist artists is not smug complacency. Like Hamilton’s work, it is inventive and full of life. “
-Michael Gormley
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