Yellow Meadow, Summer Clouds
A landscape in oil on canvas, 16 by 24 inches, painted in 2020. The title and the curator's note place the composition in a green valley carpeted with buttercups, the viewpoint taken from a hillside sketch, with a generous expanse of summer sky filling the upper portion of the picture. The horizontal format suits the subject well, allowing the meadow to breathe across the canvas while the clouds command the space above. Oil on canvas is a natural choice for this kind of plein-air-derived work, lending itself to the layered warmth of yellow flowers against green grass and the shifting, luminous quality that summer cloud formations demand.