White Hart's Summer Valley is a 30 x 40 x 1.5-inch original oil on canvas of a summer wildflower meadow with a white hart. The white hart (albino deer stag) looks out over his summer valley from behind an art-nouveau-style abundance of poppies and other wildflowers. To his right is a valley that hints at a lake below and trees shimmering in the background. I painted this in December in England as I needed a reminder of the gorgeous proliferation of the flora and fauna of summer. The white stag is a reminder of one I saw years ago in a red deer herd from the Bluebell Railway train line in Sussex. It is always magical to see deer, but a white deer is even more so. I would love to see him again, but can meanwhile paint him and make him real that way. The edges are white and the canvas is deep-edge, so a frame is not needed.
