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Celestial Drift

In Celestial Drift, the mountain emerges through a veil of shifting atmosphere, its form both revealed and softened by light. the triptych expands the landscape across three panels, allowing the eye to move and settle, much like the experience of being within the mountains themselves. Blues deepen and dissolve into lighter passages, suggesting movement-of weather, of time of something less tangible.

There is a quiet tension held within the work: a sense of ascent and release, of solidity meeting something more ephemeral. The peaks are present, yet never fixed, as if they are continually forming and dissolving within the surrounding sky. Light becomes the unifying force, carrying the composition beyond representation and into a more immersive, internal space.

Rather than describing a single moment, Celestial Drift reflects a state of being-where the landscape is felt as much as it is seen, and where stillness and motion exist simultaneously.

Medium

Oil paint on brushed aluminum panel

Status

Sold

Size

96" x 108"

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Triptych Celestial Drift with luminous sky and atmospheric mountai forms displayed in a contemporary living room.
Right side panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting an ethereal mountain landscape with luminous sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Center panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting an ethereal mountain landscape with luminous sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Left panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting a majestic mountain landscape with abstract sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Triptych Celestial Drift with luminous mounmtain peaks and atmospheric sky in its forever Deer Valley home.
McGrath Installation!
Triptych Celestial Drift in its entirety before the panels were cut down so thie piece could fit in the space the collector wanted do display it.
Triptych Celestial Drift with luminous sky and atmospheric mountai forms displayed in a contemporary living room.
Right side panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting an ethereal mountain landscape with luminous sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Center panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting an ethereal mountain landscape with luminous sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Left panel of triptych painting Celestial Drift depicting a majestic mountain landscape with abstract sky and layered, atmospheric light.
Triptych Celestial Drift with luminous mounmtain peaks and atmospheric sky in its forever Deer Valley home.
McGrath Installation!
Triptych Celestial Drift in its entirety before the panels were cut down so thie piece could fit in the space the collector wanted do display it.
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