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

builds a powerful

perhaps the witch's  own face straining in the hard the work of gathering energy to thrust out again

The Witching Herbs

which was actually covered with dead leaves

where he writes in a scroll

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