Fruit, 2024

This drawing presents a dense, abundant arrangement of apples and leaves, rendered with saturated color and careful attention to volume and surface. The composition is tightly framed, bringing the fruit close to the viewer so that color, curvature, and repetition become the primary language. Reds, greens, and yellows interlock rhythmically, creating a sense of richness and quiet sensuality without relying on narrative.

Built through layered colored pencil, the drawing achieves a velvety depth and luminous intensity. Each apple is modeled slowly, with subtle gradations that give weight and roundness, while the surrounding leaves introduce cooler greens and directional movement. The green woven leaves at the base grounds the composition, adding texture and structure, and reinforcing the still-life tradition that underpins the work.

This piece belongs to an ongoing body of drawings exploring fruit as form, abundance, and visual rhythm, objects that hover between the domestic and the symbolic. The rectangular format allows the composition to unfold horizontally, emphasizing fullness and continuity across the surface.

• Colored pencil on paper

• 12 × 16 inches

• Unframed

• Signed by the artist

• Ships flat

• Carefully packaged to ensure safe arrival

This work is well suited for collectors drawn to richly worked drawings, classical still-life references, and images that celebrate color, patience, and material presence. It can stand alone or dialogue beautifully with other works from the Fruit Studies and related drawing series.