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
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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By Donald Schenkel
57 x 32 cm, 2025
Oil paint on paper with walnut frame

In The Last Sunset (2025), Donald Schenkel captures the moment where day dissolves into night through the slow layering of oil paint. Working with a traditional glazing technique, he builds depth and luminosity without visible brushstrokes. The colour shift, from deep violet to warm orange and pale blue, evokes the lingering light of dusk, suspended between presence and disappearance.

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By Donald Schenkel
57 x 32 cm, 2024
Oil paint on paper with walnut frame

In Soft Green Twilight No. 2, Donald Schenkel works in a remarkably traditional way, layer by layer, with slow-drying oil paint that allows for subtle transitions and lasting depth. The surface may appear effortless, but it is the result of countless thin glazes and hours of drying time between each layer.

By working patiently and without digital tools, Schenkel continues a centuries-old painting tradition, using time itself as a material. The result is a sense of calm and precision that feels both timeless and contemporary.

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By Donald Schenkel
70 × 70 cm, 2024
Oil paint on synthetic canvas

Donald Schenkel's latest series explores the idea of paintings as screens, inspired by the seemingly digital character of the gradients. By suspending the works from the wall, they evoke the feel of computer screens. He draws on the historical shift in art from symbolic and spiritual meanings to alternate realities, which evolved further with the introduction of cinema, and digital screens.

As we grow up with digital screens, images are increasingly seen as generated, rather than physical objects. Schenkel questions if the same becomes true for paintings.Will future generations understand a painting as more than a screen-like image? His use of materials like thin sheets of paper highlights this tension, as what appears digital is, in fact, created using techniques that stem back from the early Renaissance.The perception of reality and the interpretation of the painting is changed by the material aspects of the object itself and how we view them in today’s day and age.

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By Donald Schenkel
51 × 37 cm, 2025
Oil on linen, on wood

In Donald Schenkel’s work, painting becomes a means to examine the tension between control and intuition, surface and depth. Through abstract compositions, he investigates how colour, form and material can suggest space without representing it, how a shift in texture or transparency can alter perception.

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