Nantucket 1— Large-Scale Mixed Media Coastal Abstract by Cheryl Fudge, 2025

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A large-scale, deeply layered mixed media painting by Cheryl Fudge, Nantucket 1 captures the island not as geography, but as … Read more A large-scale, deeply layered mixed media painting by Cheryl Fudge, Nantucket 1 captures the island not as geography, but as memory, movement, and emotional architecture.

Built through translucent blues, whites, and weathered neutrals, the surface holds fragments of handwritten poetry, nautical imagery, and archival photographs—boats, sails, horizons—embedded and partially obscured, like recollections surfacing and receding with the tide. The composition reads as a shifting grid of windows and passages, evoking walking Nantucket’s streets, looking out to sea, and holding multiple moments at once.

The work carries a quiet gravity. It is expansive yet intimate, abstract yet unmistakably coastal. The palette mirrors water, sky, fog, and salt air, while the handwritten text anchors the piece in lived experience—personal, specific, and emotionally exact.

This is a flagship Cheryl Fudge painting: immersive, architectural in scale, and resonant with place. Nantucket is not illustrated here—it is felt. See less