This painting continues my exploration of cows as symbolic and expressive figures. Across these four related works, I pursue a direct and intuitive approach to image-making—embracing simplicity, spontaneity, and the essential nature of form.

The compositions are deliberately primitive, almost childlike in their rendering, evoking both innocence and quiet authority. I combine several techniques—drawing with oil stick, monotype printing from cutout shapes, and traditional brushwork—to build layered surfaces that feel immediate yet richly nuanced. These overlapping processes allow chance and intention to coexist, revealing forms that seem both discovered and remembered.

Here, two white cows outlined in blue stand within an abstracted pasture. Their interlocked arrangement—one head raised, the other lowered—creates a dynamic yet harmonious rhythm. The composition recalls the structure of a still life: foreground, object, and background, arranged in quiet equilibrium. Through this simplicity, a sense of stillness and timelessness emerges, capturing a gentle moment poised between realism and abstraction.

This series bridges my recent bird paintings with the Nordic-inspired animal imagery that continues to shape my practice—works grounded in instinct, memory, and the search for essential form.