Winter Sky Painting Size:24"x16" soft pastels and creamy white

soft pastels and creamy white furnishings

The atmosphere is gentle and diffuse

the whole composition trembles with light

Thick palette-knife strokes build the leaf-littered ground into ridges of ochre

A patch of clear blue sky breaks through the foliage at the very top

Winter Sky Painting Size:24"x16" soft pastels and creamy whiteA pale winter sun hangs low over this softly painted landscape, its halo of warm light bleeding into a sky of powder blue and gentle apricot. A dark, meandering path threads through the foreground, picked out between drifts of snow and clumps of tawny dried grasses that catch the last colour of the day. Slender bare trees stand to one side, their fine branches feathering against the glow, while distant evergreens darken the horizon. The brushwork is