Flora (Into the Woods)

This woodland scene is built as a quiet architecture of trunks—vertical, unwavering—and within that steadfast rhythm the painter releases a shimmering, particulate light that turns foliage into a living veil. Cool sky tones—lavender and pale blue—press gently behind the trees, while the warmer, rusted undergrowth anchors the eye in earth and season, suggesting a threshold between renewal and decay. The compositional emphasis on repeated uprights reads like a procession, inviting contemplation of time’s passage as the forest holds both distance and intimacy in the same breath.