This painting was inspired by the kind of summer evenings that stick with you—the way golden hour light fills a room and turns everything warm and still. I was thinking about late July, when the house is quiet, the kitchen’s clean, and a candle’s been burning since the afternoon. There’s a kind of calm in those moments that’s hard to describe but easy to feel. This piece is my way of holding onto that—those slow, golden hours that make home feel extra special.