New Work: Colors Revealed, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in.

Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

Exhibiting: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM $5700 framed To purchase

About this oil:

This oil painting began during my June Fine Art Workshop in Marshfield, MA, and was completed while teaching my July workshop at my home studio in Colorado.

I created it as a demonstration—exploring how to bring together varied, even discordant, colors into a unified and compelling composition. The painting went through several transformations.

The first version featured vertical trees, tightly grouped into a single dark mass. The concept was strong, and the color relationships were working, but I felt there was more to be discovered, so I pushed further, though the next version felt like two steps backward.

That’s when I remembered the advice of my painting mentor, Wolf Kahn: “Do violence to the picture.” And I did.

What followed was a series of bold, radical changes. I completely dismantled the second composition, allowing something entirely new to emerge—an arrangement of soft, color-rich bands that carry a quiet joy. It’s a painting that speaks in a whisper, but it sings.