morning light

48 x 36 (1.5” deep)

2025

In Morning Light, luminous threads of shallow water stretch across the canvas, capturing the soft, early-day glow just as light begins to awaken the surface. Subtle ripples and shimmering reflections are drawn into a composed, spacious field of pale aqua and warm ivory, where movement feels suspended and infinite. The painting invites a moment of pause—a gentle inhalation before the day fully unfolds.

Technique

Executed in oil on canvas (48 × 36″), Morning Light was built up through many thin, translucent layers. With each pass, the brush blended sharp edges of light and soft dissolves of color, capturing the interplay between clarity and blur. The palette remains restrained—cool blues softened into warm ivories—while the glazes and feather-blended strokes allow light to seem as though it emanates from within the paint, shifting subtly with ambient light.

a note from laura

Painting Morning Light felt like a quiet ritual of looking—leaning in until the water became its own form, its own rhythm. I was drawn to those delicate intervals where light fades into calm, where the pattern pauses. In those moments I found a soft optimism: the idea that even when everything is still, the light is moving, breathing, renewing. It’s a painting about presence, about the space between awakenings, and about resting in the gentle drift of dawn.