Sunlit Woodland Birds

Catalogue note

A wooded clearing dissolves in strong shafts of light that rake diagonally across pale trunks, picking out a scatter of dark ground birds. The paint is handled loosely and atmospherically, soft grey-greens and chalky highlights building depth rather than detail. The eye travels from the luminous foreground grass up through the illuminated canopy, and the mood is hushed and reverent, nature held in a moment of quiet revelation.