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Out of Darkness · 2023
Silver Landscape
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The landscape silvered by darkness — terrain translated into the specific gray of things lit from within rather than from above.
Silver Landscape (2023) is a horizon made of light — an abstract meditation on reflection, atmosphere, and stillness. This 30 x 36 inch acrylic and epoxy painting from the Out of Darkness Collection transforms minimal elements into a scene that feels both cosmic and intimate.
The composition is divided horizontally, with a cool, brushed field of silvery gray suggesting sky or fog above a darker, glossier base. Fine textures ripple subtly across the surface — not painted, but revealed through movement, light, and layer. There is no literal land, but there is grounding. No sky, but a sense of height. It’s not a place — it’s the feeling of one.
I created Silver Landscape while reflecting on quiet. On the kind of silence that feels full, not empty. This is a painting for looking, not solving — a mirror made of sky.
It shares aesthetic affinity with the ethereal precision of Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose seascape photographs hold light and shadow in quiet tension. Like Sugimoto, I believe that minimalism can carry weight, that repetition can be sacred.
Silver Landscape doesn’t depict. It suggests. It invites you to bring your own atmosphere to it — to project memory, possibility, or peace.
As part of the Out of Darkness Collection, this painting uses form not to impose, but to invite. It’s geometry softened, symmetry blurred — a field where vision and feeling become one.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 5 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 8 ft or more
- Light
- Low ambient light amplifies luminous passages — dark-wall installation ideal
- Daylight
- A dark, cool painting in graphite black and lilac gray, it will not shift in Arizona sun, but direct light flattens its close values. Give it a wall beside the window rather than one facing it.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Silver Landscape rewards the room where people slow down. It changes on the seco
Hotel lobby 5/5
Strong enough to hold an arrival space, intimate enough to reward a longer look.
Details
- Size
- 3 × 2.5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Out of Darkness
- Palette
- Graphite Black · Lilac Gray · Deep Gray
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its reading
Read on the six dimensions of ArtGraph.
- Texture1
- Form3
- Colour range1
- Palette4.2
- Contrast2.8
- Abstraction Quotient2


