Original Painting: Stone Work 7 by James Edward Scherbarth

Four violet shapes stand in a red room like guests who arrived early, with a lavender square keeping its distance.

This original painting, Stone Work 7, is by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), in oil and cold wax on cradle board, signed en verso. Cold wax can be scratched with almost any tool, and many painters let the grain of those scratches serve as drawing in itself. A brick red ground covers the panel, finely striated. Against it stand four upright purple forms, one tapering like a spade, all edged in pale lilac. At right, a soft lavender square hangs near the top. It is 12 inches wide and 12 high.

Standing stones, by way of a very good red.