Description
Secret – the tree that bears coloured rings
Painting on canvas splits a single tree across four upright, narrow fields, with a dark trunk and a finely branching crown. Concentric rings hang among the branches in green, red, turquoise and white – fruit that does not exist in nature. The sky moves from burnt orange at the top to a pale greenish white, and a broad brown band of earth runs along the bottom.
Technique & Texture
The ground is built in soft, stacked layers that bleed into one another vertically. The rings are painted separately, hoop by hoop, with a clean edge and a visible thickness of paint. The branches are pulled in one continuous stroke, which is why they stay thin and springy.
The Secret painting, a tree with coloured rings, is four upright canvases hung side by side in a row; the menu sizes are the whole set, width first, and each canvas is a quarter of the width and the full height. 80 x 60 cm gives canvases 20 cm wide and 60 cm tall; 100 x 70 cm, 25 cm wide and 70 cm tall; 120 x 90 cm, 30 cm wide and 90 cm tall; 150 x 100 cm, 37.5 cm wide and 100 cm tall; 165 x 110 cm, about 41 cm wide and 110 cm tall; 185 x 120 cm, about 46 cm wide and 120 cm tall; 200 x 130 cm, 50 cm wide and 130 cm tall; 215 x 140 cm, about 54 cm wide and 140 cm tall; 225 x 150 cm, about 56 cm wide and 150 cm tall; and 240 x 160 cm, 60 cm wide and 160 cm tall.
80 x 60 cm suits a hallway or the wall above a 120 cm desk, and above a 150 cm sideboard, 100 x 70 cm. Above a 180 cm sofa, choose 120 x 90 cm, about two thirds of its width. From 200 x 130 cm up, the four canvases need a long living-room wall, an open-plan space or the wall above a big corner sofa.
The Motif
The trunk grows out of the second panel and opens across all four canvases, so the crown continues even where there is no trunk. The rings sit unevenly: denser in the upper half, thinning and shrinking towards the edges. A few drop downwards and hang in empty space.
Styling & Placement
Orange, green and brown sit well with wood, rattan and natural fabrics. As an abstract painting that hangs all its colour on one recognisable tree, it carries a child’s room or a waiting area as easily as a living room: friendly without turning loud.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, acrylic, layered ground and individually painted hoops
- Palette: burnt orange, olive green, brick red, turquoise, chestnut
- Ideal for: living rooms, children’s rooms, waiting areas
- Character: playful, warm, narrative
Four narrow fields for a single crown: measure the wall before you settle on a format.
The Secret painting: a four-panel tree with coloured rings for a living room or child’s room
The Secret painting comes in 3 landscape sizes, each the total of four ring-tree panels side by side in a row. At 80 x 60 cm each panel is 20 cm wide and 60 cm tall, at 100 x 70 cm 25 cm wide and 70 cm tall, and at 120 x 90 cm 30 cm wide and 90 cm tall. Above a 180 cm bed or sofa, choose 120 x 90 cm, and above a 150 cm sideboard, 100 x 70 cm.
The 120 x 90 cm size arrives in 6 days, while 80 x 60 and 100 x 70 cm arrive in 15–45 days. All four orange-sky canvases are stretched on wooden stretchers, included in the price, so the Secret set is ready to hang. Hang the panels with equal gaps from the centre between the second and third canvas, so the brown band of earth runs at one height. The trunk, branches and every ring are hand-painted, so the Secret painting is not a print.
Questions about the Secret painting
Which size of the Secret painting fits above a sofa?
Above a 180 cm sofa, choose 120 x 90 cm, and above a 150 cm sideboard, the Secret set in 100 x 70 cm.
How long does delivery of the Secret painting take?
The 120 x 90 cm Secret set is in stock and arrives in 6 days; all other sizes arrive in 15–45 days.
Is a frame included with the Secret painting?
No: the Secret painting comes without a frame, and its four canvases with the tree and rings are stretched on wooden stretchers and hang as they are.
Is the Secret painting a print?
No, every coloured ring and every branch on the four canvases is painted by hand, so it is not a print.
