Cold Summer Drinks is a still life series focused on brief moments of relief—glasses set down, condensation forming, light refracting through liquid.
These paintings are not about the objects themselves, but about the pause they create. A cold drink on a warm day marks a small suspension of time: work stops, heat recedes, attention returns to the senses.
I am drawn to these moments because they are ordinary and fleeting. The glass will warm. The ice will melt. The moment passes almost as soon as it arrives.
Painting them slowly, in oil, allows me to reverse that disappearance. The act of careful observation—watching how light bends through glass, how moisture gathers and falls—becomes a way of honoring experiences that usually go unrecorded.
In an age of constant acceleration and image saturation, these works insist on stillness. They invite the viewer to linger, to notice temperature, weight, and quiet presence. What is held here is not refreshment alone, but memory—coolness remembered long after the glass is empty.