Jackie Ellens' Street Scene II

A hand-painted composition in leaf and gold, Street Scene II carries the quiet authority of work made slowly and with intention — light suggested rather than declared, atmosphere built in layers. At twenty-five inches tall and twenty-one wide, the scale is intimate without being incidental, sized to anchor a vignette or hold its own above a console. Jackie Ellens brings to the John Richard collection a painterly sensibility where gold does not shout but glows, lending the piece a luminous warmth that shifts with the room's changing light.