Cloudy Dream #3 Tonal Blues and the pale winter sky

and the pale winter sky behind softens everything into a quiet warm blue

Everything in the scene is paused at noon

Where other frames in the series run bronze and tangerine

or let the silhouette dissolve into the ground

this one builds a whole tiny menagerie in the air above her crown

Cloudy Dream #3 Tonal Blues and the pale winter skyCloudy Dream #3 a single sunlit cumulus drifting low in a sky that drains from soft lavender at the top to warm cream and peach at the cloud's base. The cloud sits well below centre, a small white and apricot mass holding the last of the day's warmth. Above it, an enormous quiet almost two thirds of the frame given over to gradient. The grain is soft, the register painterly, somewhere between a Rothko colour field and a flight window photograph taken