36×24” Acrylic

This fun unblended, and impasto modern painting conveys the rustle of needles and the swaying of branches, rather than the tight, detailed rendering of traditional realism of pine trees. The visible texture of the paint, applied perhaps en plein air (outdoors) directly captures atmospheric conditions, and creates a mosaic-like forest underbrush. The composition gives us an ephemeral effects of wind and light on the trees in a New England day on a walk in the woods.