Thjórsá River, Mt. Hekla in the Evening Sun 1918

Asgrimur Jonsson paints here with feeling, using strokes that are both free and controlled. The scene emerges through color – greens, browns, yellows, and blues, capturing a landscape in flux. I can imagine Jonsson standing before the Icelandic vista, maybe a bit cold, trying to capture the light as it shifts across the river and the mountain. It’s not about getting it perfect, but feeling the vastness, the raw energy of the place. I bet he mixed his own colors, trying to match the exact hue of the evening sun on the distant peak. I wonder if he was thinking about other artists who’d tried to paint the sublime, like Turner or maybe even some of the Hudson River School guys. There’s a certain urgency in the way the paint is applied, like he's racing against the fading light. Painting like this is about intuition, about letting the brush lead the way. It’s a conversation between the artist, the landscape, and the history of painting itself. And it always leads somewhere new!