Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" and vibrating color

and vibrating color

signifying our blindness to their presence

They even still build big fires on the tops of their tallest stone buildings

We can't see her face

The original mixed media painting is 16 x 20" on archival watercolor board and should be framed behind glass or acrylic

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" and vibrating colorSome wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards. Their bark is as wrinkled as an elephant's. I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism, so I depicted the creases in this tree's skin by using light. The apricot moonbeams highlight the tree's wrinkles and gnarls and its very sensual form. The original oil painting is 16 x 20" 41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with