Description
Bench – a red crown over a blue bench
Wall art shelters an empty blue bench under the wide red crown of a solitary tree and leaves everything else in grey — abstract painting almost, were it not for the two objects the eye refuses to let go of.
Technique and texture
The ground is painted in soft dispersed greys with no hard edges, as though seen through mist. Trunk and branches are pulled with a thin stroke of dark brown and black. The crown is the opposite of all of it: a dense shaggy load of red and orange-red opening upward into an almost horizontal plane. The bench is painted flat, in clean blue with black legs.
The motif
The tree sits a little right of centre on a short thick trunk whose branches open sideways rather than up. The crown covers almost the whole upper half. The blue bench stands left of the trunk, turned toward the viewer and empty. Some ten red patches of fallen leaf lie scattered over the grey ground, and a low line of trees is barely suggested behind.
Setting and placement
Everything but the crown and the bench is grey, so the picture survives a busy room that a fuller one would lose to. The grey ground agrees with any wall colour, and the red crown gives the room a single clear focus.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, dispersed misted greys, thin pulled branches, shaggy dense crown, flatly painted bench
- Palette: grey, red, orange-red, blue, black
- Ideal for: living rooms, bedrooms, above a sofa or long chest
- Character: still, misted, focused
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