Original Painting: Another Day Without You by James Edward Scherbarth

One pale, scratched egg in a field of dark red. The title explains the rest.

Another Day Without You is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth, in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board. It is dated 2019 and signed en verso. Abstract paintings like this are made to hold a feeling rather than a scene, and oil mixed with cold wax can be worked into a pitted surface more like old plaster than paint. The red here runs from brick to near black, with small dark marks scattered through it. Low on the left, a white oval form is wrapped in fine tangled lines of rust and grey. Thirty-six inches wide and 36 high.

Nothing here insists. It simply stays.