Contemporary Abstract Expressionism I Lavender Morning

This painting is cool and calm, built from soft lavender, lilac, periwinkle, sky blue, and sage green. It has the feel of a landscape seen in early morning light. The top of the canvas is pale and cloudy, with white and blush pink drifting across like soft cloud. Below it, a band of bright sky blue and turquoise opens up through the middle, like a lake or a clear stretch of sky. On the left, a strip of deeper blue sits along it like distant water or a far shore. The lower half turns into land. Lavender and violet fill the lower left, dense and textured like heather or lavender fields. Soft grey-white rises in the centre like a hill or a boulder, and sage and moss green gather in the lower right and along the bottom, like grass or shrubs. Thin dark lines, scratched into the paint, sweep across the canvas in a large arch from the top centre down to the right, with more lines cutting across the middle and lower left. They look like branches, a bridge, or a gate framing the view, and they give the soft colours a sense of structure and movement. The paint is laid on with a knife in short, layered strokes, with a dry, chalky texture throughout. It reads as a lavender field by a lake, a view through branches toward water, or a memory of a peaceful morning landscape.