Original artwork description:

This oil painting of trees was painted in-situ by the Taunton to Bridgwater canal near a WW2 pill box and the old junction that lead to the Chard canal near Creech St Michael in Somerset.

This was painted plein-air on a stretched canvas during the Summer of 2022, using bold colours, seeking to create an image of entanglement, highlighting ways in which nature will claim back land, growing any which way it can, creating a tangled web of tree trunks, branches, bracken and other plants.

This work is part of my continuing series exploring areas of human habitation left to history, time and entropy.

Materials used:

Oil paint on stretched canvas

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