Tony Fey's Black Diamond

A commanding presence at forty-eight inches tall, Tony Fey's Black Diamond arrives as a hand-painted original from John Richard — oil and acrylic worked onto framed canvas with the kind of deliberate, unhurried mark-making that rewards prolonged looking. The composition earns its name through a tension of depth and luminosity, that characteristic diamond quality of absorbing light while simultaneously throwing it back. Handmade in every considered sense, it is the rare work that functions as both focal point and quiet anchor, settling a room rather than simply decorating it.