Bench in the Autumn Park
A 2019 oil on canvas, 20 by 30 inches, depicting an empty park bench set beneath autumn trees. The subject is quiet and unhurried, belonging to a long tradition of the unoccupied seat as a vehicle for mood rather than narrative. The foreground is built up through multiple glazing layers, a technique that lends the darker passages a particular depth and luminosity, allowing light to seem to travel through the paint rather than simply sit on its surface. October light, with its low angle and warm, slightly melancholy quality, appears to be the governing condition of the whole composition.