Solar Eclipse on a Cloudy Night
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Organic Movement
“Solar Eclipse on a Cloudy Night gathers fragments of the moment and renders them eternal in layered abstraction.”
Part of the Organic Movement Collection, Solar Eclipse on a Cloudy Night is a 60 x 60 inch oil on canvas work that uses Ritu Raj’s signature twine painting technique to create visceral, kinetic abstraction. Every sweep, drag, and arc is formed by dragging threads through oil paint—capturing movement with a precision that is both deliberate and unpredictable.
Against a black background, white and silvery strokes arc and swirl like wind currents or celestial turbulence. The forms suggest planetary motion, a partial eclipse caught mid-transition, or weather patterns frozen in time. There’s no center. There’s no edge. The entire canvas pulses with quiet intensity and textural complexity.
Executed entirely with twine, not brushes, this work reveals the physicality of painting itself. Lines stretch, splinter, fracture—never quite symmetrical, never fully still. It’s a painting that moves even when you’re standing still.
“This painting began with the idea of a celestial event—but the clouds took over. It became about what we almost see, and what we feel instead.” — Ritu Raj
Solar Eclipse on a Cloudy Night embodies the core of the Organic Movement series: the merging of gesture, improvisation, and tactile process. It is an invitation to witness abstraction not just as image, but as energy and atmosphere.
