Peering Light through Evening Clouds

The sun hangs as a soft, luminous disc behind drifting cloud in this 12x16 pastel titled Peering Light through Evening Clouds by Peter Adams, its glow spreading in warm bands of orange and gold across a heavy, textured sky. Below, gentle waves catch the same light in scattered reflections along a calm, wide shoreline. Where his other pastels of this subject lean toward vivid color, Adams keeps this version softer and more diffused — a hazier, more contemplative read on the same evening ritual of watching the light fade.