This is an original Artwork created by Kelvin Christensen.
This work is created with Acrylic paints on stretched canvas.
A stylized winter landscape unfolds across the canvas, balanced between calm stillness and bold, unexpected color. The composition is horizontal and layered: a dark, glassy pond sits at the center, catching muted reflections of the banks and sky and anchoring the scene. Around the water, patches of snow are rendered in clean, sculpted shapes that carve through the foreground and lead the eye inward.
Behind the pond, low shrubs and bare trees stand as thin black silhouettes — spare, skeletal trunks and branches that punctuate the softer planes of color. Those vertical accents contrast with the sweeping, horizontal bands of hills and mountains. The slopes are treated almost like color fields: warm, glowing oranges and deep purples sit side by side with cool blues, separated by crisp, dark outlines that lend a slightly graphic, stained‑glass quality to the work.
The sky is a brooding, star-speckled wash of indigo and charcoal, textured so that it reads like a night just after sunset or a winter dusk. Tiny flecks or speckles in the sky add a shimmering, almost cosmic feel against the heavier, solid mass of the mountains. A cluster of darker trees on a mid-range ridge breaks the color bands and provides a focal counterpoint to the luminous hills.
Brushwork and texture are visible: areas of smooth color meet more textured, stippled sections, suggesting either layered paint or a mixed‑media approach. The overall palette — orange, violet, cobalt, white and black — gives the landscape an otherworldly aura: familiar in its forms but heightened in mood by the chosen hues.
The painting reads as both serene and slightly surreal, a quiet winter moment distilled into strong shapes and evocative color.
This piece was created in 2022.
The size of the piece is 12" tall by 16" wide.
This piece is part of our "Starry Eyed" temporary exhibit, come see it in person through the months of June and July 2025.