Description
Tree 9 – red rain from a bent trunk
Painting on canvas rains hundreds of round red loads off a slender trunk bent into an S and lets them fall away down both sides — wall art in which the flowering is doing the work a whole landscape usually does.
Technique and texture
Every blossom is a single dot of dense red pressed down with the blade, and no two are alike. Long dark brown and black strokes make the trunk, and streaks of lighter bark are left showing inside them. The ground is rubbed out in thin layers, so olive and pale ochre push through the white in places.
The motif
From the foot the trunk turns first to the right, then back to the left, and splits near the top into a few thin branches. The crown opens wide to both sides, densest in the upper third and thinning toward the edges into single falling dots. A few blossoms have come away and hang in the empty space to the left of the trunk.
Setting and placement
A tall narrow shape is exactly right beside a door, between a cupboard and a window, or along a corridor. The cream ground lifts a darker room, and the red crown ends up as the only colour in an otherwise neutral scheme.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, blade-pressed blossom dots, long streaked trunk strokes, thinly rubbed ground
- Palette: red, cream-white, olive-grey, dark brown, black
- Ideal for: hallways, entrance halls, narrow wall sections
- Character: light, rhythmic, singular
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Tree 9 on a narrow wall: sizes and hanging
The upright Tree 9 comes in 16 sizes, from 30 x 60 to 180 x 365 cm. A slim strip of wall beside a door, or between a cupboard and a window, needs no more than 40 x 80 or 50 x 100 cm. Above a console table about 90 cm wide the painting should cover two thirds of that width, which gives 60 x 120 cm, while a stairwell or a tall entrance hall carries 75 x 150 or 80 x 160 cm. Choosing YES under Stretcher brings the red-crowned canvas stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang straight away. No frame comes with Tree 9 unless you add one in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
Each red blossom is pressed on separately with a palette knife, so this hand-painted canvas is not a print.
Before you buy Tree 9
Which size of Tree 9 works beside a staircase?
On a stairwell wall the S-shaped trunk and its red crown open out well at 75 x 150 or 80 x 160 cm.
Does Tree 9 arrive ready to hang?
Yes, the cream-white canvas of Tree 9 is stretched on a wooden stretcher before dispatch when you choose YES under Stretcher.
Is Tree 9 a print or handmade?
Handmade: its hundreds of red blossoms were pressed on one by one with a palette knife, so no two dots match.
What if none of the 16 sizes of Tree 9 fits my wall?
Ask us about a painting made to order and we can agree a size outside the range of 30 x 60 to 180 x 365 cm.
