There’s a moment—just after the sun has slipped beneath the horizon—when the world seems to hold its breath. Gilded Twilight captures this liminal time, when sea and sky blend into a quiet blur of fading light, and everything is bathed in a soft, burnished glow. The painting is inspired by evenings when I’ve lingered on the shoreline, watching how gold clings to the edges of waves, and how even the smallest stones seem to catch fire in the last light.

This piece is about what follows the sunset: the hush, the shimmer, the deep exhale of the ocean. A meditation on endings that don’t feel like endings at all—just transformation.