Shelley Bolton's Days at Hand, Large

A commanding canvas composition — nearly five feet tall and six and a half feet wide — that brings the weight of considered abstraction into a room with quiet authority. The wood frame, finished in champagne, traces the work's perimeter with a luminous restraint that neither competes with the image nor retreats from it. Shelley Bolton's hand is felt in every passage of the piece, the surface alive with the kind of painterly depth that rewards prolonged looking. It is the scale of a statement and the sensibility of a collection.