Gum tree at sunset in summer

This painting depicts a gumtree at sunset. When I first moved back to Australia this was sight I had missed greatly. I snapped some reference pics of this one on the way home from the train. I love the dusty pastels of an Australian summer sunset.

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Louis Parker is a Fremantle/Walyalup based artist. He has recently returned to WA after two years living in Paris (and three in Stockholm before that). His style is heavily influenced by his countless hours studying the impressionist greats at the Musée d'Orsay and Louvre. He believes a great landscape painting should convey the emotion of inhabiting a given space, favouring impulsive mark making over meticulous photorealism. A life long surfer, coastal scenes make a natural subject though Louis will try to paint just about anything with varying degrees of success.