Original Painting: Neverland by James Edward Scherbarth

A dark doorway in a wall of pink and violet stripes.

Neverland is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), in oil and cold wax, signed and dated en verso 2016. Painters using cold wax often scrape, drag and incise the surface, so the finished picture keeps a record of how it was made. Vertical streaks of red, pink, grey and violet run the full height of the panel like weathered boards. At the center, a tall rectangle of near black is combed with fine lines and topped by a band of deep green with a ragged lower edge. The image is 12 inches wide and 16 high.

Neverland, it turns out, keeps a narrow front door.