Veridian Morning on the Water’s Edge” is a meditation on how morning light softens boundaries—between tree and reflection, air and water, presence and memory. A small stand of trees gathers at the shoreline, their forms rendered with loose, gestural strokes that privilege sensation over strict detail. The dominant veridian notes, tempered by warm yellows and cool blues, aim to capture that first-breath freshness that lives only in the early hours.

At the heart of the piece is reflection. The calm surface holds a softened image of the canopy, a quiet echo that suggests symmetry without insisting on precision. I let edges dissolve where foliage meets water so the eye can drift—much as thoughts do—across the threshold of the shore. What’s above and what’s below become a single, breathing field of color.

Compositionally, the painting leans into immediacy: broken color, visible brushwork, and passages of impasto sit alongside thinner washes to evoke dappled light and shifting shadow. Rather than describing every leaf, I wanted to paint the feel of the moment—the hush, the coolness, the expectancy of daybreak gathering at the water’s edge.