Green Witch

Green Witch is a richly textured abstract painting created using layered paste and Farrow & Ball paints on canvas. Through an intuitive process of dripping, pouring, and flicking paint across the heavily worked surface, Samuel has built an atmospheric composition that feels both organic and elemental. The painting’s shifting tones and tactile textures evoke weathered stone, moss-covered landscapes, and natural erosion, drawing the viewer into its intricate surface.

Working with six carefully selected shades of green and cream, Samuel combines depth and movement with a restrained, earthy palette. Colours including Studio Green, Green Smoke, Lichen, Drop Cloth, Stirabout, and School House White blend and dissolve into one another, creating subtle variations in tone that emerge differently as the light changes across the textured canvas. Although these same Farrow & Ball colours were previously used in Samuel’s work Mitochondria, Green Witch explores a far moodier and more meditative outcome.

The layered application of paint and texture gives the work a sense of history and transformation, as though the surface has naturally evolved over time. Balancing raw energy with quiet sophistication, Green Witch reflects Samuel’s continuing exploration of materiality, movement, and abstraction.

Green Witch measures 101.6 cm × 76.2 cm and is presented within a black stained oak frame measuring 104.6 cm × 79.2 cm × 3.5 cm.