Dune

A quiet study in tone and texture, Dune arrives as an eighteen-inch square canvas work that rewards a slow, considered gaze — its depth of just three inches giving it the presence of an object as much as an image. John Richard renders stillness with authority here, and the piece carries that rare quality of work that neither competes with a room nor disappears into it. Hung alone above a console or grouped within a salon-style arrangement, it holds its ground with the understated confidence of something chosen, not collected.