Title: Baxter Boulevard
Artist: Ina Qirushi
Medium & Materials: Acrylic on canvas panel / cradled panel
Dimensions: 8" x 8"
Gallery Overview
Baxter Boulevard is an intimate original abstract landscape that captures the drama of twilight over Portland’s iconic shoreline. In this compact square-format work, Ina Qirushi balances the quiet pull of tidal flats with the grandeur of a storm-filled sky, creating a refined coastal scene rich with color, movement, and atmosphere.
Artwork Description
Across an 8" x 8" canvas, Qirushi transforms a familiar New England coastal setting into a sophisticated study of weather, light, and emotional depth. Rather than relying on fine detail, the painting is built through expressive scraping, layered acrylic, and visible movement of the artist’s hand. The lower portion is grounded by a dark shore or marsh edge, where deep burnt sienna, iron oxide, and near-black charcoal tones create a strong, tactile foundation.
A calm channel of icy blue and silver-grey water cuts across the midground, suggesting tidal flats catching the final light of day. Just above the horizon, a vivid band of orange and golden yellow breaks through the darkness, evoking the last flare of sunset beneath an approaching storm front.
Visual Mood & Collector Appeal
The sky is the commanding presence of the painting: a sweeping field of turquoise, sapphire, charcoal, and soft cream-white light, layered with energetic cross-hatched and scumbled strokes. Though small in scale, Baxter Boulevard carries the presence of a larger work, making it an elegant choice for collectors seeking a moody coastal piece with both intimacy and visual strength. Its refined palette and atmospheric drama make it especially well suited for curated interiors, gallery walls, private studies, or coastal-inspired spaces.
Style & Composition
- Artistic Style: Abstract Impressionism, Contemporary Coastal Tonalism, and Lyrical Abstraction.
- Composition: Square-format layout structured by low horizontal bands of shore and water beneath a sweeping, high-volume storm sky.
- Focal Point: The brilliant orange and golden-yellow strip of sunset along the horizon, sharply contrasted against the dark landform and swirling turquoise sky.
- Color Palette: A sophisticated coastal range of turquoise, sapphire blue, charcoal, cream-white, cadmium orange, golden ochre, and deep burnt sienna.
- Lighting & Atmosphere: Backlit twilight filtered through a heavy storm front, creating a fresh, dramatic, and quietly majestic coastal mood.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping/Pickup: Shipping is available, with items securely packaged in professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally; complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
