A smooth polished lacquer painting made by selectively cutting back shallow lacquer layers to reveal nested colour contours at different depths, with restrained highlights. A single great Himalayan peak with a sharp pyramid summit and a long snow plume blowing from its top, ridges of lower peaks stepping down on both sides, a deep valley of cloud at its foot.
Light: the summit and its plume in the shallowest cut layers of pale cream and lemon, ringed by successively deeper nested contours of apricot, rose, violet, indigo and near-black lacquer down the ridges, a faint gold rim along the ridgelines at first light; the peak's vertical rises through the tall frame. Palette of cream, lemon, rose, violet, indigo and black; luxurious, deep, polished.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. No people, animals, buildings other than the ones named, readable text, signs or logos; prayer flags carry only plain colour blocks, no script.
