Fire Sky, 2024
12 × 12 in
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Oil, acrylic on canvas
Private Collection
Cloud Break, 2024
12 × 12 in
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Landscape #103, 2018
12 × 12 in
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Oil, acrylic, on wood
SOLD
Private Collection, Washington, DC
Landscape #42, 2024
12 × 12 in
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Sunshower, 2025
16 × 16 in
40.64 x 40.64 cm
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Sanctuary Sky, 2024
12 × 12 in
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Harbor Light, 2024
12 × 12 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Orange Drift, 2024
12 × 12 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Summer Shimmer, 2025
16 × 16 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Sanctuary Sky, 2024
12 × 12 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Cloud Break, 2024
12 × 12 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Daydream, 2024
12 × 12 in
Oil, acrylic, on canvas
Private Collection
Intimate Atmosphere, Small Works
While the Big Sky paintings explore openness and expanse, the Little Sky works move toward intimacy and concentration. Modest in scale yet expansive in feeling, these paintings distill the atmosphere of the landscape into compressed and immediate encounters with light, weather, and space. Working with a heightened sense of economy, Roth embraces the small format as a place of experimentation and discovery. Gestural marks, shifting color relationships, and luminous passages emerge with a directness that reflects both observation and instinct. The paintings often carry the freshness of a first response, allowing fleeting sensations and subtle transitions of atmosphere to remain visible. Drawn from memory, observation, and years of engagement with the natural world, these works do not seek to describe a particular place. Instead, they evoke moments of attention — a passing cloud formation, the weight of approaching weather, a brief interval of stillness or light. Within their intimate scale, the Little Sky paintings invite close looking. They offer a quieter experience of the landscape, where vastness is suggested rather than declared and atmosphere unfolds through nuance, restraint, and presence.
