Original artwork description:

"Forest Light Bathing" was inspired by looking up at trees near my home in the Peak District. Sunlight plays through beautiful leaves revealing a clear sky beyond the branches. This is a meditative and calming painting, with tones of turquoise, blue, copper and gold embracing nature and an alternative gaze at a woodland space bringing a semi abstract view to a familiar scene.
An original artwork, one of a kind, this painting has been created with high quality acrylic paints on deep edged canvas. I begin with observation of the place making notes and taking photographs to work from in the studio. From these beginnings I work intuitively, painting some base layers with a brush and then impasto techniques layer on layer applied with a palette knife. Harnessing optical mixing techniques employed by the impressionists and some of the methods of the old masters such as scumbling and glazing. I continue working until the painting reaches a natural conclusion. The result is a contemporary painting, which lies somewhere between abstraction and realism. The painting continues round the sides, a frame is not needed and it is ready to hang.

Materials used:

High Quality Acrylic Paints

Tags:

#sky #contemporary #expressive #woods #forest #gold #trees #impressionist art #impressionism #turquoise #semi abstract #copper #thanksgiving #gift idea #forest bathing