There is a Welsh phrase (not a “Welch” phrase) “dod yn ôl at fy nghoed”, meaning “to return to a balanced state of mind” or the literal translation is “to return to my trees“. This, as you know, is something that I do often. But sometimes, I even surprise myself with how powerful the pull of trees can be. Take this latest tree. I walked out onto this huge expanse of hard sand at Tribune Bay on Hornby Island and then headed directly across to where there was this amazing old fir tree whose growth seems to have split the sandstone, its top is blown off, and its roots getting salted with every winter storm. I could not easily capture its grandness in one image so I pieced a few together and relied mostly on a short video for painting references.
- Subject Matter: landscape
- Created: June 06, 2019
- Inventory Number: TW1461O
- Collections: Best Contemporary Landscape Paintings of the Decade 2010 to 2019, Earth, Sea and Sky