By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
140 × 80 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

In The Observer, Donald Schenkel combines clear turquoise and blue tones with a softly illuminated centre. Fine vertical and horizontal marks appear throughout the composition, introducing a subtle rhythm within the expansive fields of colour.

The painting is built up in numerous thin layers of oil paint, creating smooth transitions and a remarkable sense of depth. Its tall, narrow format strengthens the meditative quality of the work. Both calming and quietly captivating, The Observerbrings colour into an interior without overwhelming the space.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
90 × 80 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

The Observed draws the eye through an intense field of blue, interrupted by a concentrated orange form near the centre. The complementary colours heighten one another: the blue appears deeper, while the orange takes on the character of reflected light.

Donald Schenkel builds his paintings from numerous translucent layers of oil paint. Here, the gradual transitions are combined with blurred horizontal and vertical marks that seem to shift between distance and proximity. The composition never becomes a recognisable landscape, yet it carries the spatial quality of a horizon or reflection.

With its balanced proportions and vivid colour, The Observed is an original blue abstract painting that brings both depth and a strong focal point to a contemporary interior.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

Wandering Phantoms is part of Donald Schenkel's ongoing exploration of colour and atmosphere. Layers of soft violet, pink and warm yellow dissolve into one another, while subtle vertical forms emerge and disappear within the composition.

Rather than depicting a specific landscape or place, the painting balances between presence and absence. The image remains open, allowing associations with reflections, light or distant horizons without settling into a fixed interpretation.

Built up through numerous translucent layers of oil paint, the surface reveals different nuances throughout the day. The restrained palette and luminous centre give the work a calm yet radiant character.

Presented in a custom wooden frame, Wandering Phantoms brings together colour, light and subtle movement in a composition that rewards prolonged viewing.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
70 × 80 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

No Clear Skies Ahead by Donald Schenkel is built from a concentrated blue field that shifts in density and depth. Vertical traces appear and dissolve within the surface, suggesting movement without fixed direction. The work holds a quiet tension between stillness and disruption, shaped through a controlled yet irreversible process.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
120 × 110 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

Troika’s Dusk by Donald Schenkel is structured through a sequence of vertical forms emerging from a warm spectrum of red, orange and violet. The surface appears to shift between density and transparency, with colour moving across the canvas in a single, continuous layer. The composition suggests rhythm and repetition, without settling into a fixed structure.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
70 × 68 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

No Clear Skies Ahead by Donald Schenkel is built from a concentrated blue field that shifts in density and depth. Vertical traces appear and dissolve within the surface, suggesting movement without fixed direction. The work holds a quiet tension between stillness and disruption, shaped through a controlled yet irreversible process.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
140 × 80 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

Lucid Line by Donald Schenkel unfolds through a gradual shift from warm to cool tones, where colour moves from yellow and pink into blue. A single vertical line interrupts the surface, creating a sense of alignment and tension. The painting balances clarity and instability, with each transition revealing the immediacy of a single-layer process.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
130 × 80 cm, 2025
Wooden frame included

In Unexpected Visitor, Donald Schenkel explores the presence of something unfamiliar entering a space without announcement.
The painting unfolds through layered gradients of oil paint, applied wet-in-wet in a single, continuous process. From a distance, the surface appears smooth and atmospheric; up close, the texture of the canvas and the movement of the paint become visible.

Vertical traces rise through the composition, subtly interrupting the horizontal flow of colour. Rather than disrupting the image entirely, they introduce a sense of passage, as if something has moved through the space and left a temporary imprint.

The title suggests a quiet encounter rather than a disruption. In Schenkel’s practice, unpredictability is part of the process: colours interact, shift, and assert themselves beyond full control.
Unexpected Visitor reflects on transience, attention, and the way brief presences - in life as well as in material - can alter perception without fully revealing themselves.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
130 × 80 cm, 2025
Wooden frame included

In Unexpected Guest, Donald Schenkel explores the moment when an unforeseen presence enters an otherwise balanced system.
The painting unfolds through soft gradients of colour, created wet-in-wet in a single movement. From a distance, the surface appears smooth and almost immaterial; up close, the texture of the canvas and the physicality of oil paint become visible.

Subtle vertical shifts interrupt the horizontal flow of colour, introducing a quiet disturbance that alters the rhythm of the composition. What initially reads as calm and expansive gradually reveals a sense of ambiguity.

The title refers both to lived experience and to Schenkel’s painting process, in which chance plays an active role. Certain colours emerge unexpectedly, reshaping the work as it develops.
Unexpected Guest reflects on hospitality, vulnerability, and the way unforeseen encounters - in life and in material - can leave a lasting trace.

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By Donald Schenkel
Oil on paper
57 × 43 cm, 2025
Wooden frame included

“Last Shimmer” belongs to Donald Schenkel’s new Real World Renders series, created for Root Gallery’s 2025 programme.
Through this body of work, Schenkel continues his exploration of how light, colour, and material interact to shape perception. Painted in a single wet-in-wet layer, each work demands complete control and acceptance of unpredictability, gradients merge, pigments shift, and no correction is possible.
On paper, the delicacy of oil paint becomes even more pronounced. Subtle transitions unfold across the surface, suggesting a digital glow that remains grounded in pure material presence.
Framed in walnut, Last Shimmer evokes both warmth and contemplation, the final glimmer of daylight, suspended between certainty and change.

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