This is an original Artwork created by Kelvin Christensen.
This work is created with watercolour paints on paper.
This image is a beautifully abstract and atmospheric landscape composed mainly of soft, flowing horizontal bands of color. It evokes a sense of a vast horizon during either dawn or dusk, with warm golden hues blending gently into muted grays and cool tones. The layering creates depth, as if you are looking far across a misty field or a sprawling plain, where the sunlight softly diffuses through clouds and mist.
The dominant colors are ochre, amber, and sandy golds, merging seamlessly with dusty purples and grays towards the lower edges. These colors together convey a calm, reflective mood, suggesting the transient beauty of light during the early morning or evening hours.
In the foreground, the purples and deeper hues suggest shadowed vegetation or distant hills, grounding the otherwise ethereal sky in some natural reality. The horizontal streaks could symbolize the travel of light, wind, or clouds moving gently across the scene.
Artistically, this work appears to embrace minimalism and impressionism, focusing on the emotional impact of color and form rather than detailed representation. Symbolically, the painting might express themes of tranquility, passage of time, and the ever-changing relationship between earth and sky.
No explicit scientific or logical system is present here, but the interplay of light and atmosphere reflects real-world phenomena such as atmospheric scattering and the way sunlight interacts with particulates in the air to create warm glows at sunrise or sunset.
Overall, this image invites contemplation, as if stepping into a quiet moment of natural beauty that is both fleeting and eternal.
This piece was created in 2023.
The size of the piece is 8" tall by 10" wide and is available framed and unframed.
This piece is part of the "Fields of Gold" temporary exhibit, come and see it in person through the months of August and September 2025.