Title: Haze
Artist: Ina Qirushi
Medium & Materials: Heavy-body acrylic on canvas panel / cradled wood panel
Dimensions: 8" x 8"
Gallery Overview
Haze is an intimate square-format abstract landscape that captures the quiet beauty of rural lowlands softened by mist. Ina Qirushi balances warm cream, champagne, and golden-bronze tones with fresh green and olive accents, creating a compact work that feels calm, luminous, and deeply atmospheric.
Artwork Description
Across an 8" x 8" canvas, Ina creates a serene, texture-rich interpretation of a mist-filled meadow or marshland. Rather than defining the scene with hard outlines, she relies on soft value shifts, palette scraping, and layered acrylic texture to make the damp New England air feel tangible. The lower portion opens into a pale field of champagne cream, warm ivory, and soft sand tones, suggesting wet grasses catching the first quiet light of morning.
Light, Texture & Collector Appeal
The composition is anchored by a low midground ridge of fresh grass green, deep olive, and cool slate grey, applied in short, physical impasto marks. Above it, dry-brushed vertical textures create a delicate screen of vegetation before the upper panel rises into a voluminous canopy of warm golden ocher, bronze-tan, and soft white haze. Small in scale yet rich in presence, Haze offers a refined, contemplative focal point for collectors seeking a peaceful original work with subtle color, tactile surface, and atmospheric depth.
Style & Composition
- Artistic Style: Abstract Impressionism, Contemporary Plein-Air Tonalism, and Minimalist Landscape Abstraction.
- Composition: Square-format layout with a low horizon line, a softly textured meadow basin, and an expansive fog canopy that gives the small panel a quiet sense of scale.
- Focal Point: The central band of olive and grass-green impasto ridges, where saturated texture contrasts against the surrounding ivory and champagne fields.
- Color Palette: Pale champagne cream, warm ivory, golden ocher, bronze-tan, fresh grass green, deep olive, and cool slate grey.
- Lighting & Atmosphere: Soft, diffused morning light filtered through valley mist, creating a quiet, airy, and deeply peaceful countryside mood.
Application & Technique
- Brushwork / Mark-Making: Loose, physical, and layered, with thick horizontal palette-style passes and short, choppy impasto ridges shaping the meadow terrain, contrasted by broad scumbled strokes that build the fog.
- Layering & Depth: Saturated green midground ridges pull forward, while low-contrast ocher, cream, and white passages recede into a soft atmospheric distance.
- Materials: Heavy-body acrylic on prepared canvas-grain rigid support, applied with wide flat bristle brushes and palette-knife-style handling to preserve raw surface texture.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping/Pickup: Shipping is available, securely packaged with professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally; complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
