Seasons 139 (Countryside Cottage)

This pastoral scene is built from brisk, impasto strokes that let the land feel freshly worked—paint as earth, layered and luminous. Two flowering trees command the center like living reliquaries, their violet clusters pressing against a halo of greens, while the small farmhouse at left recedes into quiet witness, anchoring the composition in human scale. The high-key yellows and pale sky wash the field in a late-morning radiance, yet the scattered puddle-like passages and broken marks suggest a terrain in transition—between rain and sun, labor and repose. Beneath its buoyant color, the painting reads as a meditation on rootedness: shelter and growth held in delicate balance across open space.