Upon a Sunny July Morning (The Ranch)

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

This painting drops you into a ranch on a summer morning when the light arrives all at once, flooding everything until color feels almost unreal. July heat presses into the ground, lifting dust into the air and wrapping the scene in a soft haze that shifts how you see. In that brightness, the familiar turns dreamlike: trees shimmer with electric greens, hills flare orange and rose, and shadows sink into violet and magenta.

At the center, a small structure sits lightly inside all that space, a quiet anchor against the magnitude of land and sky. The road curves toward the doorway, suggesting approach and memory—the feeling of walking barefoot across warm earth, returning to a place your body recognizes before your mind finds the words. The vivid palette doesn’t record the literal colors of the day so much as its emotional temperature: the tenderness of arrival, the thrum of heat, the sense of time swelling and then slowing down.

Rather than documenting a specific spot, the painting holds a mood—the charged stillness that settles when the day is just beginning and nothing has yet been asked of you.