Painting by Cheryle Rome-Beatty: Andalusian Mountain Village

White walls stacked up a mountainside, reduced to their honest geometry.

This painting, Andalusian Mountain Village, is oil on paper by Cheryle Rome-Beatty, from Spain, about 2020, signed and dated on the back. The white hill villages of Andalusia in southern Spain were built tight and steep, with limewashed walls that throw back the summer heat. Here the buildings turn to blocks of cream, ochre and charcoal, laid in wavering rows like courses of stone. Hatched lines and dark doorway shapes break up the rhythm. Thirty and a quarter inches wide and twenty-two high.

No streets, no people, and you still know the place.