Cerrillos by James Edward Scherbarth

A band of turquoise flecks breaks through the rust, like water glimpsed across a desert.

Cerrillos is a painting in oil and cold wax on cradle board by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 2011 and signed and dated en verso. Cold wax mixed with oil paint lets an artist build, scrape and incise layered surfaces, giving the paint a depth closer to stone than canvas. The upper half is a glowing amber and gold, crumpled with texture. Below a ragged horizon, the lower half deepens to burnt orange and rust, streaked with fine vertical lines. A few spots of turquoise sit along the dividing edge. It is 16 inches wide and 16 high.

A landscape that has clearly spent time in the sun.