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Paintings of the California Desert

Discover the beauty of the California desert through the eyes of Erin Hanson. Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Desert have been lifelong inspirations for Erin. She grew up among the Joshua Trees and sandy desert of southern California's high desert and later became an avid rock climber. Watching endless sunrises and sunsets over the stark, mountainous landscape gave the artist an appreciation for the depths of color that can be found in the desert, and her desert paintings often have surprising pops of purple, blue, and orange. She also loves painting the wildflower super blooms that appear in desert landscapes like Borrego Springs and Death Valley. You don't have to wait for a super bloom to see the desert ocotillo in bloom -- their bird-like red blooms have captured Erin's imagination for decades. You will also see many iconic, desert palm tree paintings in this collection.

Discover the beauty of the California desert through the eyes of Erin Hanson. Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Desert have been lifelong inspirations for Erin. She grew up among the Joshua Trees and sandy desert of southern California's high desert and later became an avid rock climber. Watching endless sunrises and sunsets over the stark, mountainous landscape gave the artist an appreciation for the depths of color that can be found in the desert, and her desert paintings often have surprising pops of purple, blue, and orange. She also loves painting the wildflower super blooms that appear in desert landscapes like Borrego Springs and Death Valley. You don't have to wait for a super bloom to see the desert ocotillo in bloom -- their bird-like red blooms have captured Erin's imagination for decades. You will also see many iconic, desert palm tree paintings in this collection.

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Borrego Springs ocotillos are one of the artist's favorite subjects to paint. Their spidery branches create a network of abstract shapes against the desert sky. In this painting, the artist communicates the beautiful red-orange of the ocotillo flower with a entire landscape of cool contrasting color. This painting was created on museum-depth canvas, with the painting continued around the edges of the stretched canvas. It arrives ready to hang without a frame. (Please contact the artist if you would like information on framing options for this painting.)

Borrego Bloom

24 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $455

 
The last sunrays, breaking through the parting clouds, gild the tops of the boulders with yellow light. Joshua Tree National Park is most beautiful after the rain has brought the desert scrub to life with shades of subtle greens and golds.

Last Light at Joshua

36 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Ultramarine mountain ranges form the backdrop of this Joshua Tree painting. The impasto paint application has a rich, sculptural effect. This early Open Impressionism painting is now available for purchase (being sold on consignment.)

Blue at Joshua

48 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting $25,900

Textured Replicas starting at $2,800

Prints starting at $445
Joshua Tree National Park is filled with unique, white granite boulders that reflect and capture the desert's changing light. The yucca plants and Joshua trees look beautiful in the cool colors of dawn. This painting was created on museum-depth canvas, with the painting continued around the edges of the stretched canvas. The painting arrives ready to hang, with framing optional.

Yucca Dawn

30 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Desert winds blow through these iconic palms of Palm Springs, the sunset light catching in the fronds. The mosaic light creates a stained glass pattern of color across the desert sky.

Palm Springs

36 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $440

 
Barker Dam at Joshua Tree National Park is an oasis of color during the early dawn. The vibrant colors of the early light casts its hue across the granite rock formations, lighting them with fire. The still waters of the dam capture perfect reflections of the surrounding desertscape. This painting was created on gallery-depth canvas, with the edges painted around the sides. The painting arrives framed in a beautiful hardwood floater frame, ready to hang.

Reflections at Barker

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
The ocotillo cacti in Joshua Tree National Park bloom with vivid red flowers in the spring, while the desert scrub becomes frosted with apple green and cadmium yellow. The cool morning air appears fresh and alive in this painting, the brush strokes themselves seeming to capture the essence of the outdoors.

Joshua in Blue

36 x 44 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Coyote Canyon is a beautiful hiking destination near Borrego Springs, California, which turns into a rainbow of subtle colors after a rainstorm. The dusky green buds and tender new growth cover the desert soil in a blanket of spring. This painting brings the desert to life with an explosion of texture and color, each brush stroke dancing within the rhythm of the painting. This painting was created on museum-depth canvas, with the painting continued around the edges of the stretched canvas. This painting looks beautiful hanging without a frame, or you may contact the artist for framing options.

Coyote Canyon II

50 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Burnished gleams of light spread over the high desert landscape near the Coachella Valley, in California. The gathering ocotillos move together for a moment in passing. Thickly applied paint leaps from the canvas with a rhythm of its own, while unexpected pops of color play with the eyes.

Ocotillo Gathering

30 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $445

 
Brooding purples and lush lavenders fill this canvas with cool shadows that are a bold contrast with the hot desert colors of Joshua Tree National Park. The brush strokes in this painting are loose and expressive, capturing the emotional communication of a parting storm and final colors of daylight.

Brooding Storm II

36 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
This oil painting on board captures the beauty of a late afternoon in Borrego Springs with a simplicity of color and composition.

Coyote Canyon

12 x 12 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $405

 
Sunset blues pop like electric lights behind the foreground of desert rocks and joshua trees. The abstract shapes of the landscape dance together in an expression of energy and love for the outdoors. A perfect painting for anyone who loves exploring the California desert.

Desert Dance

30 x 50 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Bold desert color is expressively painted in thick strokes of oil paint by the artist. Her loose brush strokes are full of movement and life, bringing out her love for the desert landscape. Each stroke interacts and overlaps like stained glass, creating a true mosaic of color and texture.

Ocotillo Blooms

50 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
La Quinta palms wave tall in the desert wind, the stark mountain range turning shades of purple and velvet in the backdrop. The brush strokes in this painting are thick and textural, full of motion and color.

Velvet Palms

24 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
Ocotillos dance in the open desert in this painting of California.

Ocotillos

16 x 20 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Joshua Tree National Park is home of unique rock formations that catch the morning light and turn brilliant colors at dawn. The distant desert mountains stand stark in the distance.

Joshua Tree

11 x 14 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Joshua Tree National Park is painted in bold color and vivid brush strokes, in this small oil painting on board.

Joshuas

14 x 11 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Bright springtime colors pop from the canvas in this painting of Indian Wells, near Palm Springs. This California desert painting captures the heat and color you see in the desert at sunset.

Indian Wells

48 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Vivid color and loose brush strokes capture the beauty of a setting sun across the layered mountains of Borrego Springs, California. The tall, graceful ocotillo stands boldly in the foreground, its long limbs blooming with heavy red flowers. The desert in bloom is one of the most beautiful sights in California.

Ocotillo Sky

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
This painting is in the permanent collection at The La Salle University Art Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Beautiful and subtle color changes move across this California desert landscape. The abstract shapes of the landscape are dramatized in contrasting colors and brush strokes.

Ocotillo Shadow

26 x 20 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Brilliant desert colors of summer and sunset brings this painting of Borrego Springs to life.

Borrego Springs

9 x 12 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Wind rushes through these monumental palm trees standing sentry at Borrego Springs, California. The oil paint is applied in thick, loose brush strokes. This painting was created on museum-depth canvas, with the painting continued around the edges of the stretched canvas. It arrives ready to hang without a frame. (Please contact the artist if you would like information on framing options for this painting.)

Movement in Palms

24 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
The smoke tree is one of the California desert's most beautiful plants. The pale, frothy fronds turn color like fire to smoke at the right time of year. The brush strokes in this painting are loose and impressionistic, creating a painting full of texture and color.

Desert Garden

32 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $435

 
Desert morning light plays over these prickly jumping cholla cacti in Joshua Tree National Park. The warm Mojave colors bring the desert to life, while the textured brush strokes add motion and energy to the painting.

Jumping Cholla

38 x 52 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $430

 
Looking up into these palm trees, the spiky green leaves seemed to filter the sunlight into a myriad of rainbow colors. The sky forms a mosaic pattern behind the palms.

La Quinta Palms

30 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
This painting lingers on the many years of fond memories the artist had living near Red Rock Canyon in Nevada. The cool autumn colors have a dreamlike effect in this hot desert.

Blue Rock Desert

38 x 50 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Borrego Springs proudly presents its blooming ocotillos, their tall spider stalks bending under the weight of their heavy red flowers. The distant mountains appear clear and blue in the dry desert atmosphere. This painting is created with thick, impasto brush strokes that create a mosaic of color and texture.

Blooms

20 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $440

 
The California desert at Joshua Tree has a beautiful, delicate light, making the distant mountain glow and the granite rocks reflect a rainbow of colors from their sparkling white surface. The brush strokes in this painting are free and impressionistic, full of texture and movement.

Joshua in Light

48 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
Desert color, seen through the eyes of the artist, is brilliant and full of interesting textures and contrasts. The late afternoon is one of Hanson's favorite times of the day for hiking and getting inspiration for paintings, as in this painting of Borrego Springs, California.

Borrego in Color

36 x 54 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $440

 
This beautiful, jewel-toned triptych painting spans eight feet of wall space across three canvases, the landscape continuing around the edges of the canvas for a clean, modern look. Borrego Springs is captured in all the beautiful colors seen in the desert at sunset. The brush strokes are thick and lively, creating a painting full of energy and motion.

Ocotillo Triptych

48 x 96 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $1,610

 
A spiny Joshua Tree stands in colorful glory against a background of pink-lit granite boulders. The sky is cut out around the Joshua Tree with thick, buttery brush strokes of oil paint.

Spines

30 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Multi-hued purple shadows lurk behind rounded granite boulders at Joshua Tree National Park, while the crimson light of sunset carves fire from the rocks. This painting is full of energy and motion, the brush strokes quick and alive.

Boulder Glow

30 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Golden afternoon hues bathe this desert landscape in warm colors. The blooming ocotillos in the Anza-Borrego state park is definitely worth traveling to see. The heavy red flowers cover the ocotillo stalks after enough rainfall, the crimson color contrasting against the stark desert landscape.

Ocotillo Gold

48 x 72 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $435

 
Bold brush strokes and brilliant color are applied in an attempt to capture the reality of the beautiful colors seen at sunset in Borrego Springs. Long shadows criss-cross against the patches of sun-lit grasses and scrub bushes.

Rays of Borrego

48 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Borrego Springs is captured here in brilliant crimson and violet colors, the artist attempting to paint the wide open space of the Anza Borrego desert and the electrically charged desert air.

Crimson Borrego

60 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
The purples and blues of the Borrego Springs mountain ranges seem too beautiful to be real - the artist seeks to create colors on her palette that will capture the mere shadow of the intensity seen in real life.

Borrego Color

24 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Fresh color and vibrant brush strokes bring the Anza-Borrego desert to life. This painting captures the movement and energy of the California desert, where subtle beauty lurks in every shadow and scrub bush.

Ocotillo Color

40 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Borrego Springs is a great place to see the ocotillos bloom in the spring. The heavy red flowers against the green branches catch the morning light and catch beautiful spidery shadows across the white sand floor.

Rainbow Sherbet

30 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Driving through the Coachella Valley as dawn was breaking over the pass, the artist had to stop and capture the perfect fading of yellow to violet in the mountain range. The ocotillos point up straight, drawing the eye into the beautiful sunrise sky. This painting is full of texture and movement with free, impasto brush strokes.

Violet Point

30 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Cool, chalky pastels create a secretive foreground, while the distant boulders capture the last pink light of a setting sun, aptly named "Hidden Valley" (which also happens to be the name of a Joshua Tree climbing destination.)

Hidden Valley

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Afternoon shadows against the steep mountain ranges of Palm Springs, California.

Palm Shadows

36 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
This beautiful oasis in Borrego Springs seems to spring (literally) from nowhere: after hiking over dry rock beds and volcanic boulders for two hours, it is very surprising to suddenly see lush ferns growing over white granite, with un-trimmed palm trees waving tall overhead.

Oasis Dawn

36 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $435

 
There is so much color to be seen in Borrego Springs, especially in early Spring when everything seems dusted in pale apple green. This painting captures the ocotillos in bloom against the distant purple and blue mountains.

Borrego Shadows

24 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $440

 
The early morning light at Joshua Tree National Park is reflected off the golden summer desert scrub. The distant mountains are layers of color fading into the distant. Thick layers of paint create a texture that jumps out of the painting.

Joshua Tree Light

24 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
Every time the artist passes through Borrego Springs, she is inspired anew by the clear atmosphere and brilliant colors. The colors seem to haunt her until she manages to get them down on a canvas.

Three at Borrego

48 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $405

 
Pure color seen through the eyes of the artist, making Borrego Springs sparkle with life.

Through the Blue

24 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $405

 
Joshua Tree National Park inspires a true love affair with color. The magnetic colors glow in the red light of early morning. Outdoors, in the crisp morning, one's eyes go into overload to keep track of all the color. This painting is a mere suggestion of the brilliance of real life.

Dance of the Joshuas

48 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $420

 
This painting was inspired after camping in Joshua Tree for several days, driving out towards the southern exit. The smoke trees were a work of art themselves, looking like hand painted, fluffy, cotton candy plants.

Arboreous

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Bright colors capture the feeling of a Borrego Springs summer. The spidery ocotillo cactus cuts a mosaic of color out of the landscape, and fiery desert shrubs fill the foreground.

Borrego Summer

36 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
This is the view of Palm Springs that I have seen so many, many times, sitting in my booth at the Frances Stevens Park. I love watching the colors change through the palm trees as the sun starts to creep behind San Jacinto mountain in the late afternoon.

Palm Springs Color

36 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
Loose, thickly applied oil paint strokes capture the striking form of a Joshua Tree cactus. This Joshua Tree in bloom is the color of fire in the sun.

Joshua in the Sky

36 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Coyote Canyon is full of blooming ocotillos in the springtime. The scrub turns apple green against lavender, and the distant mountains of Borrego Springs form layer upon layer of colors. This painting uses thick brush strokes and a loose hand to capture the spontaneous feeling the artist gets while out in the desert.

Ocotillo in Bloom

50 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Scraggly desert scrub growing out of a granite boulder stack in Joshua Tree National Park. The paint strokes in this painting are applied with an impressionistic flair and energy.

Boulder Stack

30 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Rich royal colors are used to portray Palm Spring Oasis, in Borrego Springs, California.

Palm Oasis

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

Prints starting at $425

 
A mosaic of color brings out the beauty of Joshua Tree National Park, California. The ultramarine mountains seem to pop from the canvas.

Joshua Afternoon

36 x 72 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
A mosaic of color brings out the beauty of ocotillo cacti at Borrego Springs, California. This painting was expanded into a triptych to increase its size and majesty.

Ocotillo on Blue

30 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Brilliant pinks and blues capture this iconic California desertscape of Joshua Tree National Park.

Cacti in Pink

36 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Ocotillo cactus in full bloom at Borrego Springs, California. The brush strokes in this painting are thick and impressionistic.

Cool Borrego

30 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Ocotillo cactus in full bloom at Borrego Springs, California, cutting abstract shapes into a blue and lavender sky.

Ocotillo Blues

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
A shock of color brings out the beauty of the Palm Tree Oasis at Borrego Springs, California.

Red Borrego Palms

30 x 40 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Abstract shapes of sunset granite boulders, at Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Red Boulders

48 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
A dusk painting of Borrego Springs: a large springtime moon casts its cool evening light on this ocotillo in bloom.

Borrego Moon

40 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
A windy day at Borrego Springs, California, painted in bold colors and fresh brush strokes.

Borrego Palms

30 x 30 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
First morning light casts a rainbow of color over Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Cactus Rainbow

36 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Original oil painting of Joshua Tree National Park. The colors in this painting are bright and electric, and the brush strokes are bold and impressionistic.

Blue Joshua Rock

48 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
First morning sunrise at Joshua Tree Park sees a desert vine dancing with a stack of granite boulders.

Boulder Dance

48 x 36 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Abstract landscape painting of Joshua Tree National Park. These alien-looking desert plants always look like they've been caught in the middle of a secret rhythmical dance.

Joshua Rhythm

36 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
The ocotillo cacti grow in grouped clumps in Joshua Tree National Park. When the ocotillo bloom the valley seems awash in red flowers.

Mojave Ocotillo

48 x 60 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
First morning sunrise at Joshua Tree Park shapes the granite boulders with pink and yellow light.

Yucca at Joshua

24 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
A light in the sky peeks through a stormy sky at Joshua Tree National Park. The joshua tree cuts abstract shapes into the sky.

Light in the Sky

30 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Hot cadmium orange burns through the sand in this oil painting of Joshua Tree National Park.

Ocotillo Rainbow

24 x 48 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
Orange granite boulders in Joshua Tree National Park, in abstract shapes and brush strokes.

Orange Granite

36 x 24 in

Original Oil Painting - SOLD

 

 
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