Hi Gail. When I said the trees were stripped I didn't mean their bark was stripped. All their lower branches are gone, something that happens when there's frequent wild weather on a shoreline that forcefully throws wind and water at the trees along the shore. I'm thinking if we could see below those trees there would be branches strewn everywhere. We used to see this along the shores in Puerto Rico when I lived there as a kid. 😊
@PuzzleBug The sweetgum trees just behind my porch are mottled with green and gray lichen. I have crape myrtles that strip their bark and leave mottled areas and a Japanese umbrella tree whose bark peels off in circular plates. Some of my loblolly pines have green and silver areas of bark. None of them are purple, I'll admit that. But I think what you "spotted" was spots of color that the artist saw in the light on some sort of barky pine, perhaps Scottish pines? 🤔
I thought it looked calming @MaryEPear It reminds me of Lake Lanier, a large lake to the north of us surrounded by red clay banks and Georgia pines. It's a quiet day, no motorboats, and the sun is changing the colors of the water. The red clay edge that shows on both sides indicates that the water level is down a little. 🌵
But everyone seems to see something different here -- @madpol found it sinister and @PuzzleBug sees choppy water and the bark on the trees. @HonestCrone and @Mayami (and myself) responded to the color blendings.
Angus Wilson was born and raised in Scotland and has lived in numerous cities throughout Britain. He has worked as a professional artist his entire career (25+ yrs)...
Angus’ work is immediately evocative of the masters of the past. He’s an expressionist in the purest sense, manipulating his subject in color and form to evoke his own interpretation and vision of the subject, blending his imagination with the subject. There is a strong link in the work to the post-impressionist and artists such as Gauguin, Cezanne and Matisse. However on closer examination, elements of late expressionism and modernist abstraction can be witnessed. For example, his palettes are often bolder, the compositions more contemporary, and color planes presented flatter than the traditional post-impressionists.
That's a good title considering the choppiness of the water and the stripped condition of the trees. They must be rainbow eucalyptus trees, although I would expect stripes vs spots. Good puzzle. Thanks Gail. 😊
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