Capturing the Light Acrylic

"Capturing the Light" This piece was inspired by forest light and dynamic shadows in woodlands. I have expressed the interplay of light and nature on canvas with palette knives, creating a symphony of colour. The brush strokes are a dance between dreams and reality, crafting a forest bathed in a vibrant, enchanting glow. Imagine this artwork as a peaceful woodland day in your home, radiating joy and serene energy in every direction. The light falls through beautiful leaves with bright colours as though the light is breaking through the trees, while the delicate textures created with a palette knife create abstraction in the foreground. It's a window to a world where magic and the mundane mingle with a sense of distance so that you feel as though taking a journey in to a forest bathing place.
An original artwork, one of a kind, this painting has been created with high quality acrylic paints on deep edged canvas. I take inspiration from walks through the beautiful forest where I live close to the natural world. This is the foundation of a creative process and continues with intuitive imaginative development of the painting. My process begins with observation of the place making notes and taking photographs to work from in the studio. From these beginnings I work intuitively, painting some base layers with a brush and then impasto techniques layer on layer applied with a palette knife. Harnessing optical mixing techniques employed by the impressionists and some of the methods of the old masters such as scumbling and glazing. I continue working until the painting reaches a natural conclusion. The result is a contemporary painting, which lies somewhere between abstraction and realism. The painting continues round the sides, a frame is not needed.
For shipping within the UK the painting will be parcelled in a reinforced box and can be delivered without removing from the stretcher and ready to hang.
For overseas shipping the painting will need to be taken off the wooden stretcher and rolled in to a cardboard tube. When it arrives the painting will need to be re-stretched on to a wooden stretcher frame by a framer.