“Palden is a master at creating paintings that exhibit design precision and artistic skill that captivates and carries the viewer throughout the painting... 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, as quoted in Plein Air Magazine
“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.”
-FINE ART CONNOISSEUR
Self-Portrait at 45, oil on panel, 48×36”
Finalist, Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, 2025
How She Sleeps, oil on panel, 24×30”
Finalist in the New Salem Museum Competition, 2025
Debutante, oil on panel, 36×24”
Romi, oil on panel, 20×16”
Clearing 48x60", oil on canvas
Stack 32x40", oil on canvas
“I consider my paintings to be testaments to time spent, souvenirs of experiences.”
Hamilton has participated in, and received honors from, Plein Air Easton, Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, and En Plein Air Texas, among others.
“Quiet Morning on Memorial, Atlanta”, oil on panel, 20×16”
I returned to this 18×24” on many cold mornings over the course of three years.
Dusk Rises 16x20", oil on panel
Work Is Done 11x33",oil on panel
For me, the landscape is most overwhelming in quiet moments, in perfect stillness: Then, it seems vast and ancient beyond understanding. My main interest in landscape painting is to evoke, or just personally satisfy, a feeling of Longing.
“At the core of all science are insatiable curiosity and deep observation: Learning motivated by intrinsic wonder, hunger to understand, and ability to observe.”
-The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
