View through the gate at the back of our house into the paddocks beyond. I loved doing the bark peeling off the trees and the mist among the scrub in the far paddock. Combined with the colour of the sky the day I was painting the scene has a calm warmth that I enjoy nearly as much as cloudy overcast one.
You can’t really see it but the fenceposts beyond the gate were completely hidden by a huge blackberry bush until I took a hedge trimmer to it. Its absence from the painting records my victory.
Oil on canvas in a Tasmanian blackwood beeswax polished floating frame.
24”x36” painted in June 2024. Exhibited at Sutton Village Gallery as part of my “Beyond the Front Gate” exhibition.
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