Original Painting: Ancient Lands VI by James Edward Scherbarth

A wall of gold, a long grey sky, and no one around to explain it.

Ancient Lands VI is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 2015 and signed and dated en verso, in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board. Abstract landscapes are painted to evoke a place and its age rather than picture it, and heavy scraping of cold wax can give a surface the look of weathered rock. Rugged ochre and gold rise on the left like a cliff or a ruined wall, stepping down to a green ledge with thin dark uprights. Grey fills the top of the board, and black anchors the bottom. Twenty-four inches wide and 36 high.

Ancient, certainly. The lands have not said whose.