Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" I also rejected the naturalist

I also rejected the naturalist approach to the ground here

On the opposite side stands the Shekhina

Ever since I was a child and saw films of the Sun's roiling

we see people moving towards a life much more connected to land (or water) and although death has occurred due to the poisonousness of a previous way of life

and pastels

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" I also rejected the naturalistSome 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