Evening Aflame 2016

Rose Freymuth-Frazier made this oil painting, Evening Aflame, and the name really says it all, doesn’t it? Just look at how she uses the medium to conjure a whole world! What a beautiful wash of warm tones, with that golden sky bleeding into the horizon. You can almost feel the heat radiating from the canvas. The trees are just soft, dark suggestions, like memories. I bet she was chasing the light, trying to nail that fleeting moment as the sun dips down. I wonder what it was like for her, standing there, brush in hand, trying to capture that magic. There’s something so raw and immediate about oil paint. It’s a conversation, really; a dance between the artist, the canvas, and the world. There’s a sort of timeless quality about painting. Cezanne was doing it, Rothko was doing it, and Freymuth-Frazier is doing it, all these artists are in a conversation through time.