Untitled - Through The Window (2024)

Untitled – Through the Window marks a rare moment of calm within my landscape practice, a composition that resists spectacle in favour of quiet observation. Created as a private commission, the piece explores the act of seeing itself: the emotional distance between interior and exterior, safety and exposure, solitude and connection.

The work frames the garden not as subject, but as projection. The viewer occupies an unseen room — a domestic vantage point, while the world outside blooms with unapologetic vitality. Between them stands the glass: a literal and psychological threshold. It separates presence from participation, evoking that familiar ache of proximity without touch.

In the absence of a visible figure, the viewer becomes complicit, both observer and occupant. The symmetry of the window panes introduces a quiet order, but one that also implies confinement. Nature is rendered luminous and overflowing, yet its containment within rigid geometry mirrors the human desire to frame and control what is fleeting. The tension lies in this contradiction: the beauty of the world as something always slightly out of reach.

Although commissioned, this painting maintains a deeply personal undercurrent. The interplay between light and shadow — filtered through layers of soft glazing and tonal restraint — turns a simple view into an emotional architecture. It becomes less a record of a place and more a meditation on how we inhabit the spaces between ourselves and what we long for.

This digital painting was executed using fine-textured brush layers emulating soft oil-on-canvas diffusion. Natural daylight was constructed through blended radial gradients and desaturated overlays, lending the foliage a gentle translucency. The framing architecture was intentionally subdued, guiding attention toward the chromatic saturation of the garden beyond. Subtle vertical brush movements along the curtains mimic ambient air and motion, while fine linear precision on the window panes establishes a quiet spatial rhythm. The result is an image that feels suspended — poised between containment and release.