Contemporary Abstract Expressionism I Autumn Reflections

White and pale grey cover most of this painting, with autumn colours breaking through in the centre and on the right. The upper left is almost entirely white, laid on thick and pulled downward, so it feels like mist or a bright, overcast sky. The colour gathers to the right of centre: ochre, rust red, and burnt orange, with dark charcoal blocks beside them and olive and moss green stretching to the right edge, dotted with bright yellow. A second, smaller cluster of ochre, green, and yellow sits in the lower left, like an echo or a reflection of the first. The paint is applied with a knife in short horizontal and vertical pulls, which creates a loose grid across the surface. In places the white is dragged over darker layers so finely that it leaves a crosshatched, woven pattern. Soft grey and beige fill the lower right and calm the composition. It reads as a village or a row of trees reflected in water on a foggy autumn day, or a town seen through a rain-streaked window.