Mars Planet Painting Size:8"x8" The picture carries the unhurried

The picture carries the unhurried mood of a summer break away from everything

mineral shadow and weathered shimmer

where the soft focus settles the room

midnight blues and flashes of crimson swirl behind the suited figure

A single fallen stem lies across the polished wooden table below

Mars Planet Painting Size:8"x8" The picture carries the unhurriedA single rust coloured planet dominates the frame, suspended in the velvety darkness of deep space. Its surface glows in warm ochre and burnt sienna, mapped with shadowed craters, pale polar frost and the faint scars of ancient terrain catching a low, raking light. Scattered pinpricks of starlight punctuate the black around it, lending the scene a vast, silent depth. The painterly texture gives the sphere real presence, as though one were drifting