Description
Tree – roots beneath a cut line
Painting on canvas digs the picture downward: a white leafless tree stands in the middle and its whole root ball is painted below the surface, with one horizontal line running across the canvas to separate what is visible from what is hidden — abstract painting in its logic, since the part that matters is the part nobody normally sees. The sky above is pale grey and smooth, the earth below warm brown.
Technique and texture
The trunk and branches are painted smoothly, moving from white into light grey with no visible strokes. The roots are made with a fine brush, one pass to a root, thinning to a hair at the tips. The earth is the opposite, laid in wide matt layers that keep small traces of the tool.
The motif
Dark oval leaves are scattered through the air, falling in a direction given only by their arrangement, since no wind is shown. Two smaller bare trees stand on a rise behind and give the main tree its scale. The crown is wide and completely empty, which is what moves all the attention to the roots.
Setting and placement
The piece reads as quiet and deliberate, so it carries a room where people sit for a long time. A cool palette joins up with grey plaster, concrete and darker timber — a living room, a study, a corner with books.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, smoothly painted trunk, single-pass roots, matt earth layers
- Palette: white, light grey, dark olive, warm brown, black
- Ideal for: living rooms, home offices, reading corners
- Character: quiet, considered, graphically clear
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Where to hang the Tree painting?
A white tree with its whole root ball painted below the ground line wants a room where people sit for a while. Above a 210 cm living-room sofa choose 140 x 140 cm, above a 120 cm desk in a study 80 x 80 cm, and above a 160 cm bed 110 x 110 cm – each about two thirds of the furniture’s width. A reading corner with books needs no more than 50 x 50 cm. Tree has 14 square sizes, from 40 x 40 to 180 x 180 cm.
The roots of Tree are drawn with a fine brush, one stroke per root, so this painting is hand-painted, not printed. Choose YES under Stretcher and the canvas with the white tree arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. No frame is included with Tree, and the Frame menu starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
Questions about Tree
Which size of Tree suits a living-room sofa?
Above a 210 cm sofa we suggest 140 x 140 cm, above a shorter one of about 180 cm, 120 x 120 cm.
Does Tree arrive ready to hang?
Yes. Choose YES under Stretcher and the Tree canvas with its grey sky and brown earth comes stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Is the frame included?
No. A frame for Tree is added in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame.
Could Tree be painted in a size not on the list?
If no square size between 40 x 40 and 180 x 180 cm suits you, ask us about the white tree with its roots as a painting made to order.
