Contemporary Abstract Expressionism I Frozen Canal by Night

This painting is deep and luminous, built almost entirely from blue and gold. The colour moves from pale, frosty powder blue and white at the top, through bright cobalt and ultramarine in the middle, to dark navy and near-black along the bottom edge. It feels like looking down into deep water, or through a frozen window at night. Metallic gold is scattered across the canvas in small, broken patches. It appears as thin streaks near the top, clusters on the right side, and a scattering across the lower half and along the left edge. Against the dark blue it glints like lamplight on water, stars in a winter sky, or gold leaf showing through. Texture is again the defining feature, as in “Frost Flowers”. Fine raised lines spread across the whole surface in fan-like, veined patterns that look like frost crystals forming on glass or ice cracking on a canal. Darker blue shapes hang down from the upper middle like icicles or reflections, and the raised ridges catch the gold and the light. The paint is blended softly between the tones, so the cool blues merge smoothly while the texture and gold sit on top, giving the surface depth and a quiet shimmer. It reads as a frozen canal at night under lamplight, ice on dark water, or a winter sky full of stars.