Autumn Forest Calm, 2025

This painting was inspired by a lovely forest close to my studio in the Peak District. The painting has colours of amber, copper, red and gold, with a mood of optimism and peaceful calm. Light falls through beautiful leaves, while the delicate textures created with a palette knife create abstraction in the foreground. The fusion of distant light with dark shadows expresses the serenity of the forest and presents an impression of the spirit of nature in autumn. Through intuitive, imaginative development, the painting becomes a window to a world where peace and vitality coexist.

An original artwork and one of a kind, this painting has been created with high-quality acrylic paints on thin-edged canvas, which would benefit from a frame.

I begin by observing the place, making notes and taking photographs to work from in the studio. From these beginnings, I work intuitively, painting base layers with a brush and then applying impasto techniques layer by layer with a palette knife. Harnessing optical mixing techniques employed by the Impressionists, I continue working until the painting reaches a natural conclusion.

The painting is signed on the front and fitted with a cord at the back.