Still Life at Home

c. 2025 
Gouache on watercolor paper
5.5" x 7.5" (canvas)
8" x 10" (frame)

Original work signed by the artist. No prints available.

In this intimate still life, Eunice Lee utilizes a sophisticated chromatic palette to interrogate the relationship between form, surface, and ambient light. By layering saturated violets and brilliant highlights, Lee renders the radishes not merely as organic subjects, but as vessels for the shifting interior atmosphere of her South Pasadena home. The composition is defined by a rhythmic interplay of shadows that extend beyond the frame, suggesting a vast, unseen environment that grounds the subjects in a specific, lived space.

Lee employs a rigorous en plein air methodology, adapting the 19th-century Impressionist tradition of immediate, gestural application to an interior domestic setting. The work is characterized by an expressive alla prima technique, where the artist’s loose brushwork serves as a visceral transcript of light as it interacts with the tabletop's reflective surface. Moving beyond traditional documentation, Lee offers a formalist study of color and haze, transforming a "micro-scene" into a broader investigation into the permanence of the home versus the fleeting, spectral nature of light.