Shelley Bolton's Settled

A square composition framed with quiet authority, Shelley Bolton's *Settled* arrives from John Richard in a champagne finish that lends the wood surround a luminous, almost metallic warmth. The canvas within holds its ground at just over twenty-five inches to a side — a proportion that reads as both intimate and resolved, equally at home anchored on a bedside table ledge or commanding a curated gallery arrangement. There is an unhurried confidence to this piece, the kind that comes when scale, finish, and subject arrive in genuine agreement.