Glacial Attic in Oil: Frozen Chamber

An oil painting of a vast glacier occupying a forgotten attic. The attic is aged wood with slanted ceiling beams, dust moths, cobwebs, and a cracked mirror half-buried under ice. An antique trunk, a tattered armchair, and a toppled piano are ensnared by jagged blue-white ice that climbs over furniture and floorboards, creating an otherworldly frozen chamber. Frost covers the plaster and wooden surfaces; ice stalagmites grow from the floorboards. A narrow dormer window lets in a pale, icy daylight that mingles with the warm amber glow of a hanging oil lamp, casting dramatic chiaroscuro across the scene. Thick impasto brushstrokes and visible canvas texture give this scene a tactile, painterly feel, with a palette of icy blues, ultramarine, purples, and whites balanced by warm ochre, ochre-brown, and burnt sienna for the attic’s wood. The atmosphere is surreal, quiet, and haunting, like a polar landscape folded into a dusty room. The perspective is slightly low, looking up at the glacier swallowing trunks and furniture, with light tracing facets of ice and dust motes drifting through the cold air.