ashar

92x92x5cm on cradled board.
This painting is a delicate interplay of atmosphere and architecture, rendered in a soft palette of light blue and grey. The composition is sparse yet evocative: a faint rectangular outline in the lower left quadrant suggests a doorway or passage, while a subtle horizontal line near the bottom edge hints at a ménkan. These minimal elements create a sense of quiet structure within an otherwise ethereal space.
The gradients and textures evoke mist, memory, and the threshold between interior and exterior worlds. It feels like a moment suspended in time—an invitation to pause, reflect, and enter a space of stillness, silence, and the unknown.

The work is in oil on a wooden panel, with a variety of media for mark-making. 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

There’s a place I go, inside myself,
Where nobody else can be,
And none of my friends can tell it’s there –
Nobody knows but me.
It’s hard to explain the way it feels,
Or even where I go.
It isn’t a place in time or space,
But once I’m there, I know.
It’s tiny, it’s shiny, it can’t be seen,
But it’s big as the sky at night …
I try to explain and it hurts my brain,
But once I’m there, it’s right.
There’s a place I know inside myself,
And it’s neither big nor small,
And whenever I go, it feels as though
I never left at all. by Dennis Lee

Ref: 23/11