Still life with plums

A narrow glass bottle with a dark neck stands at the center of a small still life, its glass catching pale, cool highlights. Three deep-violet plums cluster at its base on a white cloth, with a strip of dark green tabletop closing the lower corner of the canvas.

Thick strokes of pink, mauve and white pigment, laid on with a loaded brush or knife, build a vibrating, sunlit backdrop that dissolves into abstraction around the more sharply modeled bottle and fruit. The dense, tactile paint and warm-cool color contrasts give the small canvas an intimate, quiet glow.