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Black & White · 2024
Iceland Hill by the Lake
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Nordic landscape in monochrome — the hill and lake held in the black and white that suits what Iceland actually looks like most of the year.
“With 'Iceland Hill by the Lake', stillness becomes vivid—each hue a quiet thunder, each line a lingering breath.”
Iceland Hill by the Lake (2024) is a dreamscape — not a rendering of place, but a feeling held in color and light. Painted in acrylic on a 72 x 60 inch canvas, this piece from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection was born of memory: a trip to Iceland where the hills glowed like myths and the water held sky.
The palette is soft but luminous — minty blue, glacier white, pale violet, earthy green. The hill rises gently from the right, its form suggested rather than outlined. The lake is implied through shimmer and reflection — not a body of water, but a space where light bends.
I created this piece with very little brushwork. Most marks are layered glazes, sponges, and palette knife movements. The result is organic, weathered, slow — like a landscape built by time rather than hand.
The work carries echoes of Peter Doig and J.M.W. Turner, artists who hold nature and dream together in paint. Like them, I’m not interested in exactitude. I’m interested in atmosphere — in what it feels like to remember being there.
Iceland Hill by the Lake offers no specifics. Just a place where you’ve never been — and somehow already miss.
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
- Any lighting — monochrome palette is lighting-agnostic
- Daylight
- Monochrome and high in contrast, it holds in any daylight without shifting color. Raking light from a side window brings the textured hill forward, and the glacier white stays clean even near bright glass.
Lives best in
Office 5/5
A 5 in a private office because the painting's abstraction is low enough to read as landscape and high enough to reward attention over time, and its glacier-white-to-charcoal range performs identically under fluorescent, LED, or natural light without losing a degree of its northern cold.
Boardroom 5/5
A 5 in the boardroom: forty-five pounds of monochrome rigor at five by six feet anchors the primary wall with the kind of authority that needs no color to assert itself, and the work's emotional register, composed, still, holding its own quiet, sets the tone before anyone speaks.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Charcoal Gray · Graphite Black · Brushed Steel · Glacier White
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Sheaf
- Texture4
- Form4
- Colour range1
- Palette4.8
- Contrast4.7
- Abstraction Quotient2
