Tangerine Ripples Beneath: When Color Breathes and Thread Speaks

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Organic Movement

Tangerine Ripples Beneath (2025) is a 6ft x 5ft oil-on-canvas work from my Organic Movement series, where I paint using oil-soaked thread in lieu of brushes. Here, tangerine strokes burn across a cool, blue field like solar flares submerging beneath an ocean’s skin—inviting a paradox of movement and stillness, of flame and water.

This painting embodies my fascination with elemental contradiction: how something fiery can feel quiet, and how thread—so fragile—can carve space with authority. The gestures are mapped through intuition and precision, then surrendered to gravity and the natural curl of thread, producing fluid forms impossible to replicate with traditional tools.

In spirit, this work resonates with Joan Mitchell's color storms and Anish Kapoor’s tension between surface and void. Yet its language is uniquely mine—each mark a filament of intention, each ripple a meditation.

Collectors, designers, and curators seeking tactile abstraction that challenges the visual plane will find in Tangerine Ripples Beneath a study in opposites: light and dark, movement and rest, control and surrender.

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Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Artist | Phoenix

After 30 years as an executive and entrepreneur, I returned to painting full-time to explore what words and strategy couldn’t hold. I create bold, expressive abstract art to shift how we see and feel—opening space for reflection, connection, and quiet transformation. For me, change begins not with certainty, but with listening.

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