Spring Gathering (2022) Traditional The painting confronts the violence

The painting confronts the violence of abandonment — not in the moment of death

After a warm summer rain

Stillness and silence dominate the scene

A seated skeleton rendered with startling clarity sits against a rich red backdrop

and colour rising again from beneath

Spring Gathering (2022) Traditional The painting confronts the violenceOil on canvas20 24 in A group pauses in the bright thaw of early spring snow still piled around the streets while warm light returns to the Yukon. The figures are casual and familiar, capturing an ordinary moment of conversation that becomes emblematic of small town life. In Spring Gathering, the landscape isnt wilderness, but community: the season shifting is felt not through mountains or rivers, but through people returning to the streets again.