The paintings in this group are a return to color, the bond between the essence of color in nature and the nature of the skilled artist. The painter completes nature by isolating a brief episode of visual intimacy and layers it with colors only a gifted vision can perceive. The time of these paintings is 2023 into 2025; they beckon us to witness. The individual studies own no titles. A title might infer the artist’s “meaning,” an act that immediately interferes with the viewer’s activities. Quoting the critic Robert Hughes: “Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.” “Understanding without meaning suggests a particular form of communication, of revelation, one in which the demand for expression is put to a test.”