Old Dead Tree Painting Frame:Linen white threaded with dust lanes and

threaded with dust lanes and dotted with clusters of blue-white stars

almost conversational pose while the third looks on

its face turned directly toward the viewer with calm

The forest floor is strewn with grey stones and tufts of grass painted in muted browns and olive tones

The whole scene pulses with the wild

Old Dead Tree Painting Frame:Linen white threaded with dust lanes andA gnarled dead tree rises from a rocky outcrop in this dramatic study, its bare branches twisting like bone against a brooding, storm laden sky. The pale weathered trunk is split and knotted, clinging to the boulders with exposed roots while clumps of grey green lichen cling to its limbs. Slate and steel blue clouds churn behind it, lit by a faint break of light low on the horizon. There is a stark, sculptural beauty here, the resilience of something