One Painting: Hotel Lobby to Mountain Lodge
One Painting is an ongoing series exploring how a single artwork shifts across different environments while maintaining its identity. Each installment considers the emotional and spatial life of one piece through varied staged interior settings.
Waking Up, a 36 x 36 inch abstract composition, balances structure and openness through layered horizon lines and tonal shifts. Its restrained palette and architectural rhythm allow it to feel grounded in diverse interiors, from expansive public spaces to quieter residential rooms.
In a hotel lobby setting, surrounded by concrete and clean architectural lines, Waking Up feels quietly grounded. The layered horizon and shifting tones echo the rhythm of arrival spaces, where movement and pause exist together. Even within a public setting, the work holds a sense of stillness.
Waking Up shifts easily into more intimate environments as well. In a darker, mood-driven interior, the painting’s layered blues deepen, while the warm ochre and rust tones begin to echo surrounding materials and textures. The composition holds its structure while becoming more atmospheric, allowing the piece to feel grounded and contemplative.
In a kitchen setting, Waking Up allows a more architectural composition to live within the warmth of the home’s central gathering space. Set in a more traditionally designed interior, the painting demonstrates how modern abstraction can coexist comfortably alongside classic elements. The contrast between structure and familiarity creates a quiet tension, allowing the painting to feel integrated into the space while still standing apart from the surrounding design elements..
In a coastal or transitional residential setting, Waking Up softens into a lighter, more relaxed presence. Surrounded by natural textures, warm wood tones, and layered neutrals, the painting reflects the openness often found in homes designed as places of retreat. The composition introduces a structured horizon that gently anchors the surrounding calm, allowing the work to feel equally at home in both primary residences and spaces designed for gathering and rest.
In a gallery-inspired interior Waking Up becomes more contemplative, interacting quietly with surrounding objects and architectural detail. The structural elements within the painting echo the presence of nearby sculptural forms, allowing the work to feel in conversation with the curated objects rather than separate from them. The restrained palette and carefully arranged composition allow the painting to hold space without competing for attention. Here, the work reads as both landscape and structure, inviting slower viewing and positioning the painting as a focal point within a thoughtfully curated environment.
In a mountain lodge setting, Waking Up returns to a more atmospheric presence, echoing the rhythm of distant horizons and winter landscapes beyond the windows. Surrounded by natural wood, layered textiles, and warm neutral tones, the painting reflects the quiet stillness often found in alpine environments. The composition’s structured horizon introduces a subtle sense of order within the organic warmth of the space, allowing the work to feel both grounding and expansive.
In settings designed for retreat and reflection, the painting becomes part of the larger emotional landscape of the home, offering a quiet visual horizon that echoes the stillness found beyond the walls.
Each space reveals a different way the painting can be experienced, while the work itself remains quietly constant.
Waking Up
Waking Up is available as an original painting. You can explore details, dimensions, and current availability below.
Notes From The Studio
If you’re drawn to artwork shaped by atmosphere, memory, and the emotional experience of place, I share personal and studio reflections along with early previews of available work through Notes From the Studio.
