Deep in the Green Wood (2020) 绘画 由 Gill Bustamante

Deep in the Green Wood is a tall painting, 30x40inches and is of a red deer stag appearing in a green pine forest. The greens range from yellow greens to deep blue and purple greens and they complement the vibrant reds of the deer. Most of the canvas is of tall pine trees, some with details of the bark, some as if the trees are just materialising. Behind them is bright light shining through the forest with just a few rays catching the side of the face of the stag who is quite small in relation to the trees in the bottom right corner of the painting. The edges are blurred so that you feel you are zooming into it. I wanted to play on the complementary colours of red and green and I want the ethereal nature of forests and the deer in them to be prevalent. The primal nature of forests is very obvious to anyone who walks in woodland and pine forests especially are fairy tale like and have their own hushed atmosphere when you step into them. I like how walking in a forest immediately takes you off the current time steam as they have not changed much over the centuries (apart from to get smaller unfortunately). The deer are the guardians and watchers in the forests and are a theme I cannot leave alone! Dedicated to everyone else who loves nature and is working to cherish and preserve it

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