Cactus adds a splash of life and color to the austere desert landscape, and it can be remarkably long-lived. This prickly pear has spent its entire life in the giant shadow of Blue Mountain outside Fort Davis, Texas, and it's proud to claim that it has prospered on this ranch land for so many seasons, it counts its age in donkey years. While this painting is about the cactus, the green high desert pasture and the softly colored mountain fill the background with other silent stories.
Highly detailed, this oil is on archival Gessobord and framed in narrow, lightly distressed wood molding. The narrow, elegantly simple wood frame supports the artwork like earth supporting the cactus. Not something you consciously notice, but important to the view.
- Framed: 10 x 10 x 1 in (25.4 x 25.4 x 2.54 cm)
- Subject Matter: Landscape
- Current Location: Old Spanish Trail Studio - PO Box 2167 401 Crows Nest Road, Fort Davis, TX 79734 (google map)
- Collections: Far West Texas Landscapes, Miniatures, Nature Art, oil landscapes