Summer Skies

I began this piece with the naive optimism that a sunset, in all its fleeting beauty, would be a simple and joyful exercise in acrylics. I was quickly humbled. The scale of the canvas demanded a level of detail I hadn’t anticipated, and each layer of color asked for something new a lesson in patience and observation. What I had thought would be a quick capture of light became a deep, slow conversation with the sky.

It was only when I finally turned to oils that the piece found its soul. In the final hours, working in the warm air of a Kenyan summer, I glazed and brushed through the drying layers, letting the oils lend their luminous depth. That final act felt less like painting and more like unlocking the memory of the light itself. It was a struggle that ended in a quiet, profound satisfaction