Description
Abstract Nature – birch trunks against saturated red
Wall art surrounds a dense row of birch trunks with a deep saturated red, leaving only narrow red gaps between them, and closes the lower third with a stone-grey ground cracked right across: modern painting whose whole force comes from that collision.
Technique and texture
The red was pulled on in vertical strokes and rubbed back here and there to a darker layer beneath, so it is nowhere the same twice. Each trunk was raised out of the paint and then cut lengthwise with a point, which is where the birch bark comes from. The band below was built in a thick layer and allowed to craze until it reads as dry crust.
The motif
The trunks are not matched in thickness and not all of them stand upright — several lean, and the row loses its stiffness because of it. Silver-grey leaves sit on thin stalks along them, placed sparsely and never side by side. Where red meets stone the boundary is straight and sharp, splitting the canvas into a light part and a heavy one.
Setting and placement
Give it decent light, or the red flattens to a single tone and takes the birch bark with it. A long, calm wall is where it belongs, with enough distance in front of it for the red to be taken in whole.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, vertically pulled and rubbed ground, modelled and cut trunks, crazed stone band
- Palette: saturated red, creamy white, silver grey, stone grey, black
- Ideal for: dining rooms, foyers, living rooms
- Character: dramatic, graphic, warm
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Birch trunks on red – sizes for a long wall
Abstract Nature is a landscape-format painting in 19 sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm, all in a two-to-one ratio. A row of birch trunks on a saturated red ground needs a long, calm wall: over a 200 cm sofa choose 130 x 65 or 140 x 70 cm, above a 160 cm bed 110 x 55 cm, and over a 220 cm dining table 150 x 75 cm. A long hallway suits 100 x 50 or 120 x 60 cm, an open-plan living wall 240 x 120 or up to 340 x 170 cm.
The trunks, the cracked stone-grey band and the silver-grey leaves are hand-painted with a knife and a point, so Abstract Nature is not a print. Choose YES under Stretcher and the red canvas is stretched on a wooden stretcher bar, ready to hang, with a frame to add from the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame, if you want one. The birch trunks on red are delivered in 15–45 days, and the red canvas wants a wall where the light is good.
Abstract Nature – answers before you buy
Which size of Abstract Nature suits a sofa?
Over a 200 cm sofa choose 130 x 65 or 140 x 70 cm; the red ground with its trunks then spans about two thirds of the sofa.
Is Abstract Nature printed?
No. The birch bark is cut with a point into raised paint and the lower band is a thick crazed layer, which a print cannot reproduce.
Is a frame included with Abstract Nature?
No, for Abstract Nature the Frame menu starts at Without frame; stretched on its stretcher bar, the red canvas with the birches looks finished without one.
How long does Abstract Nature take to deliver?
Abstract Nature is delivered in 15–45 days in all 19 sizes, from 60 x 30 to 340 x 170 cm.
