Robert Genn, Warm Encounters showcases the artist’s gift for balancing winter austerity with bursts of vivid colour. A sweep of cool lavender-grey defines the distant lake and sky, their tonal harmony creating a serene, almost muted backdrop. Against this quiet field, Genn sets a line of evergreens and shrubs ignited with brilliant oranges, ochres, and deep purples—like embers glowing at the edge of a snowbound world.

The foreground is a broad, unbroken expanse of snow, rendered with subtle shifts of blue-violet shadow and small, carefully placed rocks that anchor the scene. Genn’s brushwork is sculptural and deliberate: thick impasto for the fiery foliage, smoother passages for the snow and sky, and thin linear marks for the skeletal branches that punctuate the composition.

The “warm encounters” of the title play out visually—the meeting of heat and cold, colour and neutrality, movement and stillness. It is a quintessential Genn motif: a northern landscape distilled to its emotional essentials, where winter’s quiet is transformed by a sudden flare of life and colour.