Blurry Landscape

Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Blurry Landscape (2024) captures what the mind remembers when the moment has already passed. This 60 x 60 inch oil painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection explores memory as visual fog — a suggestion of horizon, of movement, of a place that feels real but cannot be named.

Across the surface, wide horizontal bands of muted greens, lilac-gray, and faded ochre sweep gently, dissolving at the edges into layers of soft white. The brushwork is loose, translucent, and atmospheric — like looking through rain-streaked glass or recalling a dream after waking. There is no sharp line. No focal point. Only suggestion.

I painted Blurry Landscape after a long walk through fog — where the path seemed both familiar and new, where detail disappeared and space opened up in the absence of clarity. I became interested in how vision can soften into emotion — how abstraction allows us to see more, not less.

The painting is influenced by the blurred seascapes of Gerhard Richter, though my aim was never photorealism. I wanted feeling, not fact. The surface holds no story. It holds a tone.

Blurry Landscape is an invitation to pause and let memory resurface — not to recall a specific place, but to inhabit the sensation of having been somewhere meaningful.