Original artwork description:

This is an acrylic painting of a tree painted in-situ near Creech St Michael in Somerset. The tree is situated on the old Chard Canal situated on the outskirts of Creech St Michael. The painting was painted in plein-air on a small canvas with a stiff board in 2022. The painting is follwing some of the principles of Fauvism, utilising a range of hightened colours, emphasising the boldness of the colour and forms as the paint has been dabbed and drawn across the surface of the canvas.

The work is part of my continuing series of work exploring areas of history left to time and entropy. The Chard Canal was built before the arrival of the railway, but was abandoned once the railway had arrive, eventually left to ruin and in-turn gradually dismantled. There are parts of the canal that can be still seen in parts, of which this tree is upon one of the ramparts of the remnants of the canal. I have created a few acrylic paintings exploring this part of our history, including some of the old pill-boxes that line the canal.

You can see parts of the canal on an ordanance survey map.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas with stiff backing board.

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