Emerald Pulse, a large green abstract thread painting by Ritu Raj (oil on canvas with thread, 5 × 6 ft)

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Organic Movement · 2025 · also in Geometric Splendor

Emerald Pulse

A Dialogue Between Geometric Calm and Abstract Energy

5 × 6 ft · Oil on canvas with thread · 2025

Available · in the studio, Phoenix

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Emerald with a heartbeat — geometric calm and abstract energy holding their conversation through green thread.

The rectangle arrived first. Emerald over midnight blue — architectural, still, almost stubborn in its insistence on staying. I let it hold the center while everything else moved around it.

Emerald Pulse is an Organic Movement painting, which means the thread did what the brush would have contained. Violet, crimson, and white swept out from the geometry in arcs that followed viscosity and tension rather than intention — the thread tracing paths I hadn't decided on. The result is a painting with two tempos: the slow, grounded presence of the rectangle, and the restless energy that refuses to settle around it.

The green holds. The field moves. The painting lives in the friction between them.

Mondrian understood that geometry could carry feeling without losing its structure. Pollock understood that gesture could carry structure without losing its freedom. Emerald Pulse works in the space between those two understandings — ordered at its core, wild at its edges, neither one winning.

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
Warm ambient light enhances organic palette — thread catches light beautifully
Daylight
Deep green and bruised plum are cool and quiet, holding steady across the day. Their dark values flatten in strong direct sun, so indirect light serves the pulse better than a sunlit wall.

Lives best in

Bedroom 5/5

The geometric core sitting calm inside its encircling abstraction mirrors the experience of rest itself, and the thread catches warm ambient light in a way that shifts the surface gently through the hours.

Living room 4/5

Emerald Pulse earns its place in a living room because the bruised plum and deep green hold a conversation across the canvas that rewards the slow, returning gaze of daily life.

Details

Size
5 × 6 ft (W × H)
Medium
Oil on canvas with thread
Year
2025
Collection
Organic Movement, Geometric Splendor
Palette
Bruised Plum · Dusty Mauve · Deep Green · Darkened Void
Weight
About 45 lb
Ready
In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks

Its ArtGram

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  • Texture3
  • Form4
  • Colour range3
  • Palette3.5
  • Contrast2.7
  • Abstraction Quotient1
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