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SOLD to a private collector in Somerset
oil on a wooden panel 76x76cm.
Autumn Whispers
A quiet eruption of color and texture, Autumn Whispers evokes the moment when the season turns inward. A soft, luminous center—like mist caught in morning light—is encircled by deep reds, burnt orange, and shadowed blacks, threaded with vein-like lines that suggest movement, memory, and change. The composition balances intensity and stillness, drawing the eye from the chaotic edges toward a contemplative calm. It speaks of thresholds: between warmth and cold, clarity and mystery, presence and disappearance.
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." J Donne

I use oil pastels, oil sticks, markers, scrapers, charcoal, pigment sticks, newspaper, and graphite to make marks, whichever fits the moment
UV protected, signed on the back. The work is on a plywood panel and is ready to hang. No further framing is needed

Ref: 20/17