Oil & Cold Wax Painting on Paper - Currach #22 by James Edward Scherbarth

A pale green hull sits alone in a field of hot orange, going nowhere and quite content about it.

This oil and cold wax painting on paper, Currach 22, is by James Edward Scherbarth, made around 2019. Simple boat forms, reduced to hull and shadow, have long served painters as a study in color and weight. Here a wedge-shaped boat in olive and yellow-green rests at an angle, its interior a chalky pale blue. Around it, scraped layers of orange, coral and red let darker paint show through, thickening to near black along the edges. A narrow white border surrounds the image. It is 10.27 inches wide and 7.13 high.

Moored in color rather than water.