From that distance, the painting seemed to be completely abstract, a field of white devoid of imagery. But as I came closer, subtle forms in different tones of white emerged from the seemingly monochrome surface. When I moved to the right or the left, the shifting light revealed the image of a mountainscape, stark and almost skeletal, as though the painter were exposing the white bones of the mountain beneath the layers of earth.

Valerie C. Doran