“Field of Sun” is a celebration of warmth—how light lays itself across open land and turns simple forms into quiet radiance. A drift of sunflowers rises in the foreground like small suns, their faces tilted toward a sky that’s just beginning to soften. Beyond them, bands of meadow and shadowed tree line create a gentle rhythm, letting the eye travel from near to far the way a breeze moves through grass.

I worked with a limited, luminous palette—yellows leaning into olive and gold, greens tempered with cool notes, and a sky of lifted blues and soft peach—to evoke the sensation of standing in heat and shade at once. Broad, broken brushwork keeps edges lively, inviting the viewer to feel the flicker of petals, the shimmer of seedheads, and the low hum that fields carry on summer days.

Compositionally, the sunflowers anchor the painting as living witnesses; they are both subject and compass, turning the viewer toward the light that shapes the entire scene. The distant trees form a dark chorus line, deepening the middle values so the meadow can glow without glare.

“Field of Sun” is less a portrait of a place than of an atmosphere—an afternoon held in color and temperature. It asks the viewer to pause in that warmth, to notice how light gathers on ordinary ground, and to remember how a field can feel like a quiet, generous threshold between earth and sky.