Shimmering Still Lifes of Brian Blackham

Brian Blackham is a Utah-based artist, who creates simple luscious still life paintings. In a statement on the Coda Gallery's website Brian describes his process:

My paintings are an exploration of the phenomena of light, the light that exists within the environment and the light that falls over the objects. I am continually amazed with the value and the intensity of color in its relationship to space, how colors look when they are close to you or far away.

Each image is simple with subdued pastel hues, yet the application of paint on the canvas (applied thickly enough that even on a flat computer screen the texture comes through) makes the objects seem to shimmer like reflections on water or objects in a hot desert.