Strawberry Oil Painting Size:12"x8" This lively oil painting gathers

This lively oil painting gathers a shoal of sardines in vigorous palette-knife strokes

the scene feels suspended between day and night

its surface glassy and almost still

gentle eyes

its rounded form glowing warm against a vast nebula washed in teal and midnight blue

Strawberry Oil Painting Size:12"x8" This lively oil painting gathersA wicker basket sits heaped with ripe strawberries, its woven handle arching against a deep amber ground worked in loose, smoky brushstrokes. The fruit glows scarlet and vermilion, every berry speckled with tiny golden seeds and crowned by a green calyx, painted wet into wet so the highlights stand proud of the surface. More strawberries have tumbled onto the wooden table below, casting soft shadows across the worn boards on either side of the basket.