"A Few Choice Words"

Because he doesn t work directly from nature, or from photographs or sketches, the landscape, whatever its topographical and botanical features, reflects a psychological, emotional terrain. The light in his canvases is important; so is the absence of light and the interstitial space between, where objects lose their definition and slide toward the ineffable. The effect is richly melancholic and the landscape is somehow familiar: you feel you ve been there, if you ve lived at all, and that you re likely to go there again.
Sigrid Heath, Terrain of the Heart .  The Woodstock Times, November 13, 2003

Angeloch deftly executes pristine views that seem to move beyond the actual to something half-remembered, half-imagined. Whether the surface subject be Cape Cod or Millerton, Zena or Accord, the underlying tone of what Angeloch captures is contemplative, natural, sublime.
Paul Smart, The Woodstock Times, Maturing Instincts November 28, 2002

Angeloch s major new work, a twelve panel panorama of Cooper Lake, stays with the familiar topography but treats it more deeply than the eye is accustomed to reach. The paintings are as much about what he feels when he views the site as what he sees& the mood casting effect elicits an impression of one of those rare placid mornings which offer a hint of ominousity at the edge of that soul-calming gulp for the beauty of nature. It means to reach into mood and achieves that point& it captures a sense of the scene in the way that the master landscape painter John F. Carlson defined it By the landscape sense I mean something apart from beauty, or color relation, or form relation. I mean the float of a cloud.
Gary Alexander, The Kingston Freeman, 1988

Angeloch s intricate and articulated landscapes delighbjects, the eye of Eric Angeloch seizes values of form and light with an exquisite compositional sense. Sequestering the gist of substance and fluidity in organization for eloquently differentiated treatment, Angeloch composes almost symphonic poignancies of design.
Gary Irving, New Art International

Best of show? In our mind, Eric Angeloch s two oil miniatures display the artist s profound maturity, from framing to subject matter, in perfect quietude.
Paul Smart, The Woodstock Times

Angeloch s skill is matched by the sophistication of his concepts. Amazingly, his landscape work springs entirely from his imagination.
I haven t painted from nature in about six years. I take walks in all kinds of weather, absorb what I can and let it settle, ( he comments.)
This is a must see exhibition.
Olivia Twine, The Woodstock Times

My favorite links:

https://www.woodstockschoolofart.com

email Eric Angeloch
angeloch@earthlink.net