Through the Layers explores depth as both a physical and emotional experience. Warm amber and burnt umber tones build across the surface in translucent veils, allowing traces beneath to remain visible rather than concealed. Subtle vertical gestures rise through the composition, suggesting growth, memory, or presence emerging from within. The work invites the viewer to look beyond the immediate surface, acknowledging that meaning is often formed through accumulation rather than declaration. In keeping with the series, it reflects a state of quiet suspension—where light, warmth, and history settle gently into one another, held within the atmosphere of the painting itself. Part of a small collection of works titled ‘Held in the Atmosphere’ paintings exploring stillness, transition, and emotional weather through layered colour and softened form.