Landscape 

James Ward made this landscape with what appears to be graphite on paper. The composition is dominated by a wide, panoramic view rendered with delicate strokes. The horizon stretches across the page, separating a muted sky from a subtly detailed terrain. The clouds above, mere suggestions of form, contrast with the more defined horizontal lines of the landscape below. The artist uses line to create the impression of depth and distance, yet the overall effect is one of flatness, almost as if the scene has been compressed. The minimal use of shading flattens the picture plane and destabilizes any illusion of three-dimensionality. Ward seems less interested in realistic representation and more in the very essence of landscape, reducing it to its most basic elements. This reduction invites us to consider the work not just as a depiction but as a meditation on form, space, and the very act of seeing.