Contemporary Abstract Expressionism I Harbour in the Rain

This painting has the feel of a city or harbour seen through rain and mist. Bright, scraped white and pale blue fill much of the upper half, like fog or falling light, while dark navy, charcoal, and black gather along the left side and in the lower half. A thin black vertical shape rises in the centre like a spire, mast, or tower, with a darker cross-shaped mass at its base. The same vertical line repeats below, reflected in the lower half of the canvas. Just below the middle, a soft band of golden cream and pale yellow stretches across from the centre to the right edge, like a strip of light along a horizon or the glow of a waterfront. Above it, small patches of bronze and gold sit among the white. Accents of colour are scattered throughout: bright turquoise on the left side, both above and below, and small blocks of rust red and burnt orange in the lower left and lower centre, like lit windows or signal lights. The paint is dragged and scraped with a knife, mostly vertically, so the white looks streaked and weathered and the darker layers show through in broken patches. It reads as a harbour at dusk in the rain, a church spire reflected in a canal, or a misty skyline at night.