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by Maeve McGrathThis piece evokes the searing quiet of midday when the earth holds its breath beneath a blazing sky. Maeve McGrath layers scorched umber, cochineal red, and pale ash in molten bands that blur like liquefied air. The surface shimmers with the illusion of movement—like asphalt mirages bending the horizon or distant roads that ripple into uncertainty.
Heat Wave captures more than temperature. It reflects the way heat alters perception: how stillness can seem to vibrate, how silence deepens, how time stretches. In this painting, colour is radiant but unstable, as though the pigments themselves are caught in the rising haze. It is a portrait of summer at its most elemental—relentless, slow-burning, and almost surreal.
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