Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time is a contemporary oil painting depicting a still life centered around a Hendrick’s gin bottle, fresh lemons, and bar tools arranged on a deep blue surface. The composition draws attention to the quiet tension between transparency and opacity, glass and metal, freshness and shadow.

Through a restrained palette and controlled lighting, the artwork explores everyday rituals associated with preparation and pause. The objects, familiar yet carefully staged, evoke a suspended moment just before action, inviting the viewer into an intimate, almost tactile space.

Painted in 2019, this work belongs to the Cocktail Time series, in which still life becomes a field of experimentation for light, texture, and atmosphere. The painting reflects an interest in ordinary objects elevated through observation and painterly precision.