Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" who was not a demon

who was not a demon but simply a spirit

The monster stands for death but also our own fears of death

The spirit of something like the very protective Datura

The original surreal landscape painting is 16 x 20" on heavy cotton watercolor paper and should be framed behind glass or acrylic

which was actually covered with dead leaves

Moonlit Beech Tree Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on canvas 16 x 20" who was not a demonSome wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards. Their bark is as wrinkled as an elephant's. I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism, so I depicted the creases in this tree's skin by using light. The apricot moonbeams highlight the tree's wrinkles and gnarls and its very sensual form. The original oil painting is 16 x 20" 41 x 51cm on cotton canvas with