Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" Sometimes they are relaxing

Sometimes they are relaxing

that can be good or bad

We can't see her face

I've tried to capture that beauty but also to depict the darkness as a depth that goes down so far that it looks like absence

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" Sometimes they are relaxingSome 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