Original Painting: Paradigm Shift IV by James Edward Scherbarth

A turquoise pool sits in a yellow plain under a red sky striped with gold.

This original painting, Paradigm Shift IV, is by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2015, in oil and cold wax on cradle board, signed and dated en verso. Abstract landscape painting often keeps only the barest hints of horizon and terrain, leaving color to do the describing. A thick band of orange-red fills the top, with vertical cream and gold stripes at the upper right. Below, heavy yellow paint is scraped and pitted, with a patch of red hatching and a small dark ridge. A bright turquoise shape spreads across the lower right. It is 12 inches wide and 12 high.

The paradigm shifted, then took a vacation somewhere warm.