Iceland Hill by the Lake

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Iceland Hill by the Lake (2024) is a dreamscape — not a rendering of place, but a feeling held in color and light. Painted in acrylic on a 72 x 60 inch canvas, this piece from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection was born of memory: a trip to Iceland where the hills glowed like myths and the water held sky.

The palette is soft but luminous — minty blue, glacier white, pale violet, earthy green. The hill rises gently from the right, its form suggested rather than outlined. The lake is implied through shimmer and reflection — not a body of water, but a space where light bends.

I created this piece with very little brushwork. Most marks are layered glazes, sponges, and palette knife movements. The result is organic, weathered, slow — like a landscape built by time rather than hand.

The work carries echoes of Peter Doig and J.M.W. Turner, artists who hold nature and dream together in paint. Like them, I’m not interested in exactitude. I’m interested in atmosphere — in what it feels like to remember being there.

Iceland Hill by the Lake offers no specifics. Just a place where you’ve never been — and somehow already miss.