Cactus Flowers Painting Frame:Oak elegance A full moon hangs low

A full moon hangs low on the right

flickering brushwork captures light and atmosphere rather than detail

their foliage warming into russet and gold against a bright

A wall that holds onto the warmth of October long after the leaves have gone

The golden yellow

Cactus Flowers Painting Frame:Oak elegance A full moon hangs lowThis sun drenched watercolour gathers a cluster of desert cacti in full bloom, tall fluted columns rising beside rounded prickly pear pads. Coral, salmon and soft pink blossoms open across the stems, their warmth glowing against the cool green of the plants. Behind them a lilac mesa and a sky of drifting white clouds set the scene in the open arid wild, while a scatter of pale stones and low scrub anchors the foreground. The loose, washed brushwork