Painting: Bog Memory II by James Edward Scherbarth

A second visit to the bog, and this time somebody left the lights on.

Bog Memory II is a painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, dated 2019 and signed and dated en verso. Abstract works like this, made for the wall, often return to a theme in series, and peat bogs, with their power to preserve, make a fitting one for memory. A broad, ragged field of mustard and pale green spreads down the board. It brightens to yellow near the bottom, where a small blue shape sits in a crust of white. Deep navy closes in along the edges. Twenty-four inches wide and 30 high.

It remembers more than the first one. Or claims to.