Black and White Tree Canvas Monet Behind it swirls a marbled

Behind it swirls a marbled background of turquoise

her large dark eyes calm and curious beneath a pair of tall

Warmth for a room long after the real sun has gone down

an invitation to slow down and look

a sense of the great northern silence and of a creature wholly at home in the cold

Black and White Tree Canvas Monet Behind it swirls a marbledA solitary, ancient tree dominates this composition, its gnarled trunk twisting upward before the canopy fans out across the top of the frame. Photographed from below in moody monochrome, the dense crown of leaves reads almost black against a swirling, marbled sky of pale grey and white. Bare lower branches reach sideways like fingers, their silhouettes crisp against the bright backdrop. The textured, painterly treatment of the background lends the