Description
A white tree amid the autumn shedding of leaves rises before a grey landscape, its roots visible beneath the surface — the painting shows the entire tree, from roots to crown, as if in a cross-section of the world. Dark, egg-shaped leaves fall all around in a wind we cannot see. In the background stand two smaller bare trees on a hill. The colour palette is cool and melancholic: white, grey, dark olive and brown earth. The painterly style is simplified and poetic — the tree is not realistic but symbolic, a kind of parable of endurance and transience at once. A wall decoration for those who seek quiet depth in art, and not only beauty.
