Border — Pastel on Paper, 12 x 16 (17 x 21 in Custom White Wood Frame with Black Liner, Museum Glass)

This is one of Dad’s pastels that feels almost like wind in motion. When I’m looking through his archive, pieces like Border remind me how naturally he could make a landscape move—nothing static, everything shifting, leaning, breathing. The strokes are fast but intentional, pulling your eye across the hill and right up into that burst of light at the center.

The framing really elevates it: the clean white wood, the black liner, the museum glass—it all gives the piece room to glow. And in person, those layered blues and oranges are even more luminous. It’s classic Bill Suttles: energetic, atmospheric, and full of that quiet sense of place he carried with him everywhere.