Original Painting: Stone Work 11 by James Edward Scherbarth

A pale shape lifts both arms, or appears to, against a slate-blue night.

This original painting, Stone Work 11, is by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), in oil and cold wax on cradle board, signed en verso. Cold wax paintings are often worked with scrapers and squeegees as much as brushes. A light brown-gold form, finely streaked with vertical lines, rises from the bottom and branches into two raised arms, crossed by a horizontal band above. Dark navy and slate panels fill the spaces, with a faint green glow at the left. It is 12 inches wide and 12 high.

A stone in a window or a figure in a doorway, and good company either way.