The Horizon Series: Quiet, Texture, and the Spaces Between
Horizons have always held a certain kind of pull for me, not because they are dramatic or grand, but because of the quiet certainty they offer. They mark a place where two worlds meet: earth and sky, sea and air, movement and rest. When I began this series, I wanted to explore that meeting point not as a perfect line, but as a felt experience.
These paintings are small in scale, but intentional. Intimate. They invite you closer.
Small Canvases, Big Quiet
Each piece in this collection is made on a smaller canvas, which immediately changes the way you interact with it. Larger works tend to announce themselves in a room; these ones whisper. They feel like private moments, the kind of fleeting glimpses of a landscape you only catch when everything goes still for a second.
This intimacy is part of their strength. They create a moment of calm without demanding space. They’re gentle, grounding, and quietly atmospheric.
Texture You Can Feel
The Horizon Series is built through mixed media, layered in a way that brings depth and nuance to the surface. There are places where you can see the marks beneath the paint, places where texture catches the light, places where the horizon softens into something almost unseen.
I wanted these works to feel tactile not just visually soft, but physically present.
Texture has always been important to me because it mirrors the layers we carry within us. Memory isn’t smooth. Emotion isn’t flat. Landscapes, too, are made of years of weather, movement, and change. These small paintings echo that lived texture.
Between Earth and Sky
Horizons offer something I return to again and again in my practice: the idea of an in-between state. A threshold. A pause before a shift.
In these paintings, the horizon isn’t a straight line. It bends, blurs, dissolves, reappears. It reflects those moments in life where things feel both familiar and uncertain, where clarity is coming but hasn’t fully settled, where you’re standing in the middle of something changing and finding your grounding anyway.
A Moment to Pause
More than anything, the Horizon Series is about pause. A breath. A softening.
These paintings were created during a time when I needed small pockets of calm: manageable sizes, gentle marks, simple horizons that helped me find focus in the middle of busy days. In painting them, I found a kind of internal horizon, a quiet balance point.
I hope they offer the same to the people who choose to live with them.
Why I Return to Horizons
Horizons remind me that we’re always between places, between what was and what’s coming, between clarity and uncertainty, between stillness and movement. There’s something deeply comforting in acknowledging that.
These paintings hold that feeling for me: a gentle steadiness, a quiet promise, a reminder that even in the small moments, there is space to breathe.