Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" builds a powerful

builds a powerful

The style is indeed reminiscent of German Expressionism

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This painting was exhibited in the Pawtucket Foundation exhibit 2019

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" builds a powerfulSome wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards. Their bark is as wrinkled as an elephant's. I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism, so I depicted the creases in this tree's skin by using light. The apricot moonbeams highlight the tree's wrinkles and gnarls and its very sensual form. The original oil painting is 16 x 20" 41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with