Image:
"Weightless Reflection" Paddy Cohn 2024
Acrylic + oil on canvas, 50" H x 38" W

”One must celebrate the majesty of simple things that bond us across time and culture, and clouds are among the most fleetingly captivating. Paddy Cohn’s Clouds, From All Sides Now at Robin Rice Gallery in Hudson, her first solo show with the gallery, takes inspiration from these protean puffs. Cohn explores a range of mono-color environments — “In The Pink” (2024), in which a lone patch of fog floats in an all-pink universe, is one of my favorites. The all-blue “Hush” (2025) is the perfect complement, while the all-white “After The Rain” (2024) completes this cloudy crew of works. In other paintings, such as “Weightless Reflection” (2024), a stark black color field cuts against mossy green below as a cloud hovers near its own shadow, while “Blushing Sky” (2024) features a fuchsia-colored cloud floating in a swath of blue above and another in a stretch of black below. Cohn’s charming clouds are a pleasant reminder to welcome daydreams as they come. “ - Taliesin Thomas