Amber Moment Sketch

35 cm x 52 cm

Acrylic paint and Inktense pastel on paper

£ 180.00

In his beautiful book The Offing, Benjamin Myers’ itinerant young hero describes a moment of wonder and “nowness.” He articulates the impulse to record and preserve a fleeting moment of visual awe—something I relate to deeply.

“I understood, perhaps for the first time, what it was that made men wish to pick up a paintbrush or compose a verse: an impulse to capture the pulse-quickening sensation, this nowness evoked by a vista as breathtaking as unexpected. Art was an attempt to preserve the amber of the moment.”

This painting is inspired by the autumn colours of 2024—a particularly intense and vivid season, a truly amber moment.