Beside You, I Am Not Alone (Creekside)

2025, oil on linen, 16 x 20 x 1.5 in, aluminum floater frame

This painting holds the quiet intensity of evening along the creek, when the last light of day dissolves into saturated color and the landscape starts to hum with a different kind of presence. Trees flare with electric greens and violets, their edges softening where light pours through leaves and branches like flame through glass. Below, the water mirrors the sky in broken pieces, catching flashes of color as the surface moves.

The space is simple—a stand of trees, a strip of earth, a stretch of water—yet inside it lives the feeling of companionship, of being close to someone or something that steadies the world. The neon undertones aren’t literal; they’re emotional, a way of showing the charged stillness that arrives when nothing needs to be said for connection to be felt. The landscape becomes metaphor for standing side by side, sharing the same air, without disturbing the quiet.

Rather than recording a specific spot, the painting distills a moment of togetherness: the way light softens when it’s shared, and the way solitude turns into presence the instant a single companion appears beside you.