laurajwryan:

If Not, Winter, 2010, acrylic wash, monotype, rice paper on canvas, 30 x 12 inches

The title comes from a fragment of a Sappho poem, this is a Nocturne that had influences from The Ancients series—frost, a pogonip fog on a cold winter night—mysterious and haunting—and much like the poetry of Sappho on fragments of papyrus, this painting is about fragments and the spaces in between …

from the book Elemental: Abstract Art from Two Perspectives - by Laura and Fred Wellner