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He described the work as \"eclectic,\" connecting it to a painting whose technique had caught his attention, and the finished image keeps that interest in method close to the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193218842799,"sku":"V-PA5O88IZ","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0118_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653834"},{"product_id":"daydream","title":"Daydream","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaydream holds the hush of late afternoon at the lake, when blue haze gathers in the sky and evening light begins to soften the clouds. The image feels suspended between landscape and inner weather, with color and mist settling into a calm, meditative field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note for Daydream describes sketching from a familiar place on the lake, drawn to the calm that appears there late in the day. He noticed the sky lightening into blue haze, the clouds taking on evening light, and the distant mist softening the scene into stillness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193219072175,"sku":"V-DS89V7S9","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0117_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653034"},{"product_id":"morning-prayers","title":"Morning Prayers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorning Prayers is a Sacred Hours work built around color, waiting, and the discipline of looking. The painting keeps its sacred register restrained, letting paint and color carry the work without explanatory imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note for Morning Prayers is spare: \"Study in paint and color. The color does the painting. I watch and wait.\" The finished work stays close to that posture, holding prayer as attention before interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193219104943,"sku":"V-9268RGVC","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0126_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784654016"},{"product_id":"vigils-night-light","title":"Vigils Night Light","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVigils Night Light is a Sacred Hours work shaped by winter light and the waiting held in the night before dawn. The image stays low and open, gathering darkness, color, and a narrow line of light into a restrained nocturne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note places Vigils Night Light in December 2018, while he was waiting for the winter solstice. That seasonal threshold gives the painting its quiet tension: night is still present, but the work is already turned toward returning light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193219137711,"sku":"V-UE2MT3Q6","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0169_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653700"},{"product_id":"new-heaven","title":"New Heaven","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Heaven is a Sacred Hours work centered on morning light and the quiet threshold between expectation and surprise. The image keeps its sacred register restrained, allowing the arrival of light to carry the work's sense of renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note for New Heaven reads: \"The morning comes and is expected, yet sometimes I am surprised.\" The finished work stays close to that observation, holding morning as something familiar that can still arrive with force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193220939951,"sku":"V-AC8Q00MK","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0106_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653030"},{"product_id":"heaven-s-opening","title":"Heaven's Opening","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeaven's Opening is a Sacred Hours work shaped by late-afternoon light over water. Blue haze, evening cloud, and a low lake horizon gather around a warm opening of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert's note places the work at a lake in the late afternoon, where he describes a special calm or presence as the sky lightens and the clouds take on evening light. His source language stays close to observation: flow resting, softening, and moving into distant mist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193221136559,"sku":"V-R6X50D8M","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/e9cf075c936ddaf8f7d5df844bdf4eeb.jpg?v=1784653106"},{"product_id":"the-open-door-to-heaven","title":"The Open Door to Heaven","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Open Door to Heaven is a Sacred Hours work centered on open sky and the quiet arrival of recognition. The painting holds that encounter with restraint: a moment of light, memory, and delight without forcing the sacred title into explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note begins with an encounter with open sky, when the mind discovers an intuition from something read in youth. He describes it as a delight, a present moment that also belongs to what others have seen long ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193221726383,"sku":"V-M122Z7CJ","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0136_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653454"},{"product_id":"gethsemani-abbey-water-sky","title":"Gethsemani Abbey: Water Sky","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGethsemani Abbey: Water Sky is a Sacred Hours work centered on sky, cloud, and the changing color of devotional time. The image holds the fading reds, blues, golds, greens, violets, pinks, and amber glows that Robert returned to as signs of attention at the edges of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eArchive Note\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert's source note for this work reaches back to an early fascination with the sky: clouds, shifting color, and the luminous changes of the sacred hours. The title places that attention near Gethsemani Abbey, while the work itself keeps faith with what the note records most directly: sky, color, and sustained looking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contemporary Artworks","offers":[{"title":"35.6x27.9cm, 14x11\" \/ Print only","offer_id":47193222086831,"sku":"V-61U90PZV","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/7103\/3519\/files\/01_RRL-0141_primary_FROM-TIFF_LOCKED_SHOPIFY-PDP-2400x1885.jpg?v=1784653785"},{"product_id":"lauds-light","title":"Lauds Light","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauds Light is a Sacred Hours work built around lake light, blue haze, and the softening edge of evening. 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