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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2024
Abstract Landscape
In a private collection
Landscape after the description falls away — atmosphere without horizon, weather without a named sky.
“Abstract Landscape' gathers fragments of the moment and renders them eternal in layered abstraction.”
Abstract Landscape emerged during a period of reflection on memory, place, and perception. Painted in acrylic on canvas, this 60 x 36 inch work is part of my Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, which explores internal weather and the fluidity of visual experience. The painting doesn't aim to depict any real geography — instead, it channels the emotional tone of imagined terrains.
Wide strokes of olive green, ochre, and muted blue unfold across the surface like open plains. These horizontal gestures are interrupted by subtle verticals — scratches, glazes, and foggy overlays that blur the distinction between sky and land, form and mood. There's no perspective grid, no clear orientation — only motion and depth.
As I worked on this piece, I thought about landscapes not as views, but as states of mind. The kind of space we carry inside, shaped by memory, shaped by longing. It’s not about representing a moment in nature, but about allowing a feeling to evolve across a field of color and motion.
In spirit, this painting resonates with the abstract topographies of Richard Diebenkorn, whose Ocean Park series embraced architecture, land, and light as interwoven gestures. Like Diebenkorn, I was less interested in details and more in rhythm — the quiet pulse of something just beneath the surface.
Abstract Landscape invites the viewer to slow down and enter — not a place, but a sensation. A memory that isn’t yours, but somehow feels familiar.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 8 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Cobalt, viridian and midnight blue dominate, so it holds steady in daylight, with the amber and cadmium red warming a little toward sunset. Morning and evening light give it two distinct moods.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
A 5 score because this amber-to-midnight-blue horizontal sweep, legible enough to invite prolonged looking yet abstract enough to resist resolution, rewards the unhurried attention a living room offers across seasons and shifting daylight.
Bedroom 4/5
The longing coded into this slow drift from warm amber through viridian into navy is intimate enough for a bedroom, though the cadmium red passages carry enough tension to hold a sleeper mid-thought rather than release them.
Details
- Size
- 3 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Amber · Cadmium Red · Cobalt · Cobalt · Viridian · Jade Green · Midnight Blue · Navy
- Weight
- About 45 lb
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture1
- Form3
- Colour range3
- Palette3.4
- Contrast3.1
- Abstraction Quotient1
