A 30 x 40 inches original oil painting of an abstract woodland landscape in Spring with bluebells and a dryad. This painting is Art Nouveau and semi-abstract, and it shows a dryad (tree spirit) emerging from her tree so that she can attend to bluebells in her woodland garden. The colours range from deep purple through to cool blues, greens, magenta and golden yellow. I have used golden yellow to give the idea of light glinting off the trees and flowers in small beams of light. My aim was to catch a bit of the essence of the colours and light through trees that you get in a Spring woodland and to show the colours and exuberance of a bluebell wood but as an impression rather than making a botanical study. The dryad was added in later because I rarely paint people, so I thought I would make an exception. I spend a lot of time walking in woods and forests around Kent and Sussex and I am fascinated by the atmosphere you get in them. Some woodland is welcoming, some can be sinister, and I always feel as if I am being observed, so why not by dryads as well as the birds and foxes and wildlife? Painted on deep-edge canvas with white edges; no frame needed.
