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Geometric Splendor · 2022
Blue Lagoon
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Blue at immersive scale — the lagoon as geometric field, water held in a structure that gives it room to be the whole room.
Blue Lagoon (2021) is a large-scale acrylic painting that immerses the viewer in waves of layered, luminous blue. Part of my Geometric Splendor Collection, this 90 x 90 inch canvas explores serenity and movement within a single dominant hue — using geometry not to contain emotion, but to guide it.
Built with transparent washes and opaque gestures, the painting evokes water, light, and distance without representing any of them directly. It’s less a depiction of a place and more a sensation — the feeling of standing in a space that hums with stillness, where time slows and attention softens.
While it nods to the immersive fields of Helen Frankenthaler, particularly her staining techniques and atmospheric surfaces, Blue Lagoon brings a structural clarity to the experience. There’s rhythm here — implied geometry beneath the color. The architecture of feeling.
The palette shifts subtly: cerulean, ultramarine, cobalt — not to dazzle but to deepen. The size of the piece enhances this effect, surrounding the viewer in a contemplative sea of tone and texture. From a distance, it feels like floating. Up close, the details reveal themselves — tiny currents, moments of disruption, transparency that holds space for memory.
In the context of the Geometric Splendor Collection, Blue Lagoon is expansive and sensorial. It opens the collection outward — making room for abstraction as environment, emotion, and escape.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — geometric structure holds in all conditions
- Daylight
- Turquoise and ultramarine hold steady in daylight; the oxide red and terracotta warm slightly in late sun. At this size, side light from a nearby window brings the textured surface up across the whole field.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Blue Lagoon earns its place here because the cerulean, charcoal, and umber field reads as serene from the sofa yet rewards the guest who crosses the room to find the currents and disruption underneath.
Bedroom 5/5
The mood score of 1 and the deep longing coded into its charcoal and dark gloss layers make this the rare large-scale work that slows a room down rather than waking it up.
Details
- Size
- 7.5 × 7.5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Geometric Splendor
- Palette
- Turquoise · Ultramarine · Oxide Red · Terracotta · Olive Green · Bone · Near Black
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture4
- Form4
- Colour range4
- Palette2.5
- Contrast2.6
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
