Blanket Bog by James Edward Scherbarth

A bog, seen from no particular direction, and in no hurry.

Blanket Bog is an abstract painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), worked in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board in 2017, then signed and dated on the reverse. Cold wax thickens oil paint into a paste that can be scraped, combed and layered, which is why abstract painters turn to it when surface matters as much as color. Mossy greens lie over ochre in a dense grid of scratched lines, and the edges are ridged like stitching. Twenty-four inches square.

It asks very little of a wall, then takes all of it.