Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Bringing warmth and depth, this is a striking piece from a distance, but the closer you get the more you see.

I fell in love with delicacy of this little landscape interior, with the sweet saplings, the dappled light through soft understorey, and particularly the interplay of the red-orange autumn leaves against the dark shadows and bright sunlit greens. I wanted multiple layers of growth, and the prettiness of warm and cool colours intertwined.

As such this piece became all about light and colour. And I couldn't help but lean on my inspiration in Fred McCubbin to lend a hand. There is a bold ultramarine underpainting that bleeds through the shadows alongside deep crimson-purple, which was interesting against the top layers of turquoise-green foliage and the dried burnt-orange pieces right on top.