Quiet Echo

24 x 24 (1.5” deep)

2025

Quiet in title, resonant in feeling—Quiet Echo captures the subtle tremor of light across calm water. Through a palette of soft aqua, muted silver-white and pale reflective tones, the painting invites you to lean in and listen to the silent movement beneath the surface. The rhythm of the composition is gentle—waves of shimmer that echo outward, expanding into stillness.

Technique

Executed in oil on canvas at 24 × 24″, Quiet Echo was constructed through multiple translucent glazes. I built from the palest underlayer upward, shaping faint perturbations of light with fine, feathered strokes, then softened the edges so that the movement remains ambiguous—just enough for the eye to wander, just enough for the mind to rest. The restrained palette and minimalist composition allow the light itself to become the subject.

a note from laura

This piece was born of an observation: the way a single ripple disturbs perfection, letting you feel the water’s presence before you see the motion. With Quiet Echo, I explored that moment of interruption—and the calm that returns after it. The focus shifted away from the shoreline or horizon, becoming a near-meditation on surface, reflection, and the faint tremor that reminds us everything moves, even when it seems still.