Tulip Bouquet Painting Size:48"x48" the trees heavy with rime

the trees heavy with rime and broken into flecks of lilac

The crisp photographic detail captures the silent stillness of a mountain hamlet in the depths of winter

deep green or warm timber tones

giving the eye a clear route into the heart of the valley

On the right

Tulip Bouquet Painting Size:48"x48" the trees heavy with rimeScarlet, ivory and a single butter yellow tulip lean out of a porcelain vase decorated with small coral and blue flowers. The oil handling is classical and patient, petals built up in glossy curved strokes that catch the light while the leaves twist away in long ribbons of deep and silvery green. Behind the bouquet the background dissolves from warm olive into near black, so each bloom comes forward as though lit by one tall window. A single fallen