Valley of Grief by James Edward Scherbarth

The title tells you the terrain. The surface looks as if it has been through it.

Valley of Grief is a painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated en verso, 2018. Painters use cold wax to give oil paint body, so that it can be laid on, cut into and scraped away, leaving a record of the working process. Greys and silvers run in a fine cross-hatched web, like cracked or woven cloth, around a pale passage at left. Touches of ochre glow near the center. Thirty inches high and thirty wide.

It does not hurry you through it.