Woodland Emberfall

A3 alcohol ink on yupo paper
 
This A3-sized alcohol ink painting on Yupo paper evokes the wild heart of a woodland caught in the amber glow of late autumn. The composition is a rich interplay of visual textures and organic forms, where shadow and light seem to breathe between tree trunks and forest floor.
To the left, dense strokes of deep russet, crimson, and burnt umber sweep across the page — suggesting the dense foliage of deciduous trees ablaze with the last fire of fall. The visual texture here is layered and tactile, capturing the sense of rustling leaves and the quiet thrum of life within the forest’s edge.
On the right, a golden light breaks through. Bands of soft yellow, amber, and warm earth tones suggest a sunlit clearing beyond the trees, or the dappled light of afternoon filtering through thinning canopies. A path of shadow — deep, violet-black — winds through this light, like the silhouette of trunks or the trace of an unseen creature.
The palette is at once warm and mysterious, capturing that liminal moment where the forest shifts — between seasons, between shadow and sun, between the seen and the secret.
 
Van Gogh is quoted as saying "If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere".  
 
Autumn is my favourite season and I hope this series of paintings entitled "Into the Woods" capture my love of it.  It's a time of spectacular colour changes: bold and soft golds, greens, oranges and reds transform the colour palette of the outdoors, before dropping gently into rest.  This time of year fills the air with a feeling of change as leaves fall gracefully from the branches and come to setlle softly on the ground.  Trees start to reveal their superb architecture previoulsy hidden by foliage.  There is a magic as everything is changing.  A time not just of change but of letting go.
 
I have used a colour palette of citrus, vineyard, rosewood, currant, denim and slate in these original artworks of alcohol ink and yupo paper.