The Woods | Autumn Tree Grove Landscape Canvas Wall Art Print

About The Woods

Four slender trees stand across the centre of this portrait composition, their trunks thin and slightly leaning, lifting into a broad mass of foliage built from short dabs of cream, white, orange, gold, teal and rust. Behind them a band of very dark green reads as deep shadow in the woods, and above that the horizon breaks into a soft ochre sky that fills the top quarter. The lower half is a field of vertical strokes in turquoise, blue, yellow and olive, suggesting long grass catching light.

The paint is applied in flat, loaded strokes with visible ridges and dry edges, so the leaf mass looks chopped rather than blended and small gaps of dark ground show through. Colour sits in patches rather than gradients, giving the grove a mosaic quality. The overall character is warm and unhurried, an autumn scene reduced to blocks of light and shade with a signature in the lower right corner.

Suits a bedroom above a bed head, a dining room end wall or a home office where the tall format fills a narrow space. The ochre and turquoise work with timber furniture, rattan, linen in oatmeal or clay, and brass lighting. Good beside a window in a beach house hallway or above a low sideboard. Browse more blue art, brown and earthy art, or read Art above the bed: what size and how high.