Title: Beaton’s Boat Yard, 2015

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30” x 24” Framed

Waltzak creates contemporary impressionist paintings. In this elegant seascape, blues, lilacs, golds and orange layer together in the warmth of the sunset. The silhouettes of boats pepper the water on fire from the evening glow. The scene is mesmerizing and meditative.

Robert Alan Waltsak was born in New Jersey in 1944, a landscape painter who draws his inspiration from the work of the Hudson River School. The artist currently resides in Little Falls, New Jersey. He studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts (NSFIA), at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and the Ridgewood Art Institute with John Philip Osborne. He is a multiple prize winner at the Hudson River Art Association and the Ridgewood Art Institute. At an early age gravitated to the arts, studying at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, The School of Visual Arts in New York, and later at the Ridgewood Art Institute where he still has an active connection. Waltsak's paintings are held in private and corporate collections and have been exhibited at the Hastings on Hudson Museum and at the Ridgewood Juried Art Show. He has been represented by galleries in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. As well as painting, he is in the furniture building business. Bob owns the Woodworker, a cabinet making company in Wayne, New Jersey where he is assisted by his son Josh. Some of Waltsak's furniture work has made it to the Broadway stage in the productions of "Wicked" and "Fortune's Fool."