This 16×20 mixed medium painting by Stephen Stocklin features a horizontal composition on a pale beige-gray ground with subtle grid lines dividing the surface into quadrants. Dark charcoal and gray forms cluster in the lower right, punctuated by bold crimson marks and touches of olive green, peach, and bright blue. Small black gestural marks float across the upper portions like birds or seeds, while delicate white linear marks create geometric tensions across the canvas. The left side remains relatively sparse, allowing the weathered, textured ground to dominate, creating a contemplative emptiness that balances the concentrated activity on the right.
The painting evokes the accumulation of experience over time—how life remains mostly quiet and uneventful until moments of intensity gather and demand attention. The grid suggests our attempts to organize and compartmentalize, while the scattered marks remind us that memory and meaning refuse such neat divisions, bleeding across boundaries and clustering where emotion runs deepest.
This 16×20 mixed medium painting by Stephen Stocklin features a horizontal composition on a pale beige-gray ground with subtle grid lines dividing the surface into quadrants. Dark charcoal and gray forms cluster in the lower right, punctuated by bold crimson marks and touches of olive green, peach, and bright blue. Small black gestural marks float across the upper portions like birds or seeds, while delicate white linear marks create geometric tensions across the canvas. The left side remains relatively sparse, allowing the weathered, textured ground to dominate, creating a contemplative emptiness that balances the concentrated activity on the right.
The painting evokes the accumulation of experience over time—how life remains mostly quiet and uneventful until moments of intensity gather and demand attention. The grid suggests our attempts to organize and compartmentalize, while the scattered marks remind us that memory and meaning refuse such neat divisions, bleeding across boundaries and clustering where emotion runs deepest.
