Glowing Midnight: A Painter's Quiet Goodbye

There’s a kind of magic that happens when a piece paints itself in your hands — that’s how this one felt. Working on the layers, I loved watching the white flakes dance across the surface, their interplay with the underpainting creating a true sparkle of snow. With the surface grounded in black, the blues and the very subtle greens began to glow, like light pushed forward from within the dark. The limited palette only strengthened its calm, quiet presence.

I’ve always enjoyed the sense of wonder this painting gives me, as if it had quietly always

existed and only needed a moment to reveal itself. It’s a composition I loved seeing on the wall day after day, the kind that quietly steadies you the longer you look.

Today, that wall holds another empty hook. I’m a little sad to see this one go, but mostly I’m happy — happy that it touched someone enough to come home with them, to live somewhere new and be part of someone else’s daily view.

— Pat McBride

8x10 acrylic, framed in a black shadow box.

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