Gum tree canopy detail

This painting depicts the canopy of a beautiful old eucalypt. Reference pics were snapped while I stopped for a tea and was painted in the studio the next day. Could be anywhere but this particular gum was just of caves road, between Gracetown and Margaret River.

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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.