This painting is part of my 'Layers of Earth and Light' series, similar to the previous painting, it’s a 30x30cm piece made with oil and cold wax. I wanted it to feel like a landscape without really being one, more a memory or a feeling of place than something specific you could point to on a map.
The lower section is full of deep reds and umbers, that’s where the weight of the earth sits. Above that, the warm ochres and golds suggest light shifting across land, and then it opens up into those pale, almost misty blues and greys at the top. The cold wax softens everything and lets the light seep through the layers, so it feels like it’s glowing from within rather than sitting on the surface.
It’s really about contrasts, heat and air, density and openness, what’s buried and what’s revealed. I tend to build the surface up and then scrape it back, almost like excavating colour until it feels balanced. I want viewers to sense that tension the calm of the horizon and the energy just beneath it.
Materials: 30cmx30cm Cold wax and oil on Italian handmade paper. Painted over 2 days. Yellow ocre, sap green, cobalt chromite green, graphite underpainting. Alizarin crimson, vandyke brown, burnt umber, cerulean blue, white and rose dore Winsor Newton artists oil colours.
©️Graeme Webb 2025
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