Mixed Media & Collage on Paper by James Edward Scherbarth: Companions

A stone and a slice of something, hanging together in the green. They seem content.

Companions is a mixed media and collage work on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 11-23-2020. Collage lets a painter bring found pattern into a drawn world, and Scherbarth uses it here to give each object a different kind of presence. A smooth gray stone, shaded in graphite, floats over a long wedge whose cut end is built from striped pink and maroon scraps. A pale green wash spreads behind them, flecked with red. 16 inches wide and 12 high.

Nobody said the companions had to be alike.