This original landscape painting, “Blue Trees”, painted in oil on canvas. In this artwork I was experimenting with various elements., division of space and proportions, colour and brush strokes.
Developing the ideas of previous landscapes which I have produced, I really want to increase the atmosphere of landscape paintings rather than have them simply be records of a scene, which is perhaps the way my landscape paintings began.
The brush strokes in the lower portions take quite some time to apply to the canvas but the process is quite calming and almost therapeutic, as landscape painting should be.
When initially completed, this canvas was landscape style rather than portrait, however, the more I “lived” with it in the studio, the more I realised that this painting had more to give. Because of the nature of the vertical brush strokes, it dawned on me that the composition would benefit from being portrait style and hence, a section of the painting was cropped off to give the final framed artwork it’s appearance.
Painting Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm approx excluding frame.
Medium: Oil On Canvas
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