Rise by James Edward Scherbarth

A pale slab of land rises into a dark sky, edged with a thin seam of light.

Rise is an oil and cold wax painting on cradle board by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 2017, signed, titled and dated 2017 en verso. Cold wax medium thickens oil paint and allows heavy layering and scraping, giving surfaces a tactile, almost geological quality. The lower half is a pale gray-green mass, rising at the left like a cliff or shoreline. The upper half is a heavily textured black. Where they meet, touches of copper and rust glint through. It is 10 inches wide and 10 high.

Small in size, large in weather.