Silence II

The Silence cycle took shape over two winters in my Brno studio. I began the second canvas after weeks of sketching a single motif – a field outside the city just after sunset, when the landscape still holds its outlines but the colours have already left.

I layered thin glazes of oil black and zinc white until the surface began to absorb light rather than reflect it. The circle above the horizon is the only place where the canvas shines through – the silence that remained.