Soft City Hum 2

This one feels like the picture you carry home in your head after a slow walk through a quiet neighborhood. Soft coral, butter-yellow, denim blue and turquoise sit in tall stacked blocks, dragged sideways with a palette knife so the edges break and bleed into a pale beige ground.

Visual cues include brushstrokes, layers, and shapes. The palette is anchored by beige, blue, and pink. The composition is vertical.

The abstract expressionism character makes Soft City Hum 2 a natural fit for a bedroom. It also shows well in a dining room and hallway.

In commercial spaces, it suits beauty salon and boutique hotel. A vertical hang reads well above a sideboard or a narrow console.

The dominant register is beige, blue, pink, teal, and yellow. A cool atmosphere holds the surface together — the piece feels collected rather than charged.

The painter works in oil on stretched canvas, with no division of labour between sketch and finish. Layers of oil build up over the underpainting, so the surface carries visible weight and the brushwork stays legible.

The abstract expressionism character runs through the underpainting, while the impasto feel emerges in the surface passes. The painter closes the cycle on Soft City Hum 2 with standard drying times and a clear final varnish, so the work is built to age well. The vertical stretch keys the canvas tighter at the long edges, which is what holds a tall format true on the wall.

Hang a vertical canvas where the wall itself is taller than it is wide; the format leans into that proportion. Leave 30 cm or more of wall on each side; the work asks for room to breathe vertically as well as horizontally.

Soft City Hum 2 suits a bedroom that is built around one piece rather than a collection. For Soft City Hum 2, step back twice the canvas height once it’s hung — the brushwork resolves at that distance.