This piece was done as a deliberate echo of my 2017 painting, "January Chill", which has a similar composition with sun shining through a twisted tree on a frosty west coast morning.
I was struck by the warm autumn colours contrasting with the cool shadows in the snow. It's something that I had never encountered before until our first winter in Calgary and I remember being absolutely enthralled. I couldn't stop taking photos around our neighbourhood and probably have a few more paintings I could do with all the shots from that day.
- Subject Matter: Landscape
- Created: February 2021