Oil & Cold Wax on Paper by James Edward Scherbarth: Titled: White Currach

A small white boat has come to rest in a very large dark.

White Currach is an oil and cold wax on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, made around 2020. The currach is the traditional skin- or canvas-covered boat of the west coast of Ireland, light enough to be carried ashore. Here the boat sits low at center, painted in creamy white with fine horizontal lines and a shadowed interior. Around it, deep violet gives way to mossy greens scraped and scratched into texture, crossed by faint rust-red lines. It is 12 inches wide and 16 high.

The boat is the only thing in the picture that seems sure of itself.