Cloudy Dream #3 Tonal Blues The eyes carry the whole

The eyes carry the whole gesture — wide

The boulder mass anchors the lower half with quiet weight

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

Where other frames in the series run bronze and tangerine

Cloudy Dream #3 Tonal Blues The eyes carry the wholeCloudy 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