Trickily Prickily - Original

Trickily Prickily transforms the desert landscape into something exuberant, tactile, and slightly mischievous. Silhouettes of prickly pear and cactus rise in bursts of deep greens, while the distant mesa glows like sun-warmed sherbet beneath a restless turquoise sky.

The painting carries the heat shimmer and wild abundance of the high desert in the wet season, when wildflowers color up. Trickily, the painting’s sleight of hand lies in the surface itself: every mark built not with a brush, but with the artist’s fingertips moving through thick oil paint. Its title nods both to the prickly pear scattered through the foreground and to the concealed trick embedded in the process.

What first appears lush and effortless reveals itself, on closer inspection, as an act of unruly precision where touch becomes texture and the landscape seems almost kneaded into being by hand.

Year Created: 2026

Medium: Oil on canvas

Painting Size: 18 x 24 inches. Canvas depth - 1-1/2 inches. Arrives Framed.