Under the watching trees 8

This painting evokes a dreamlike woodland scene suspended in a surreal twilight. Vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue inks cascade downward in fluid, almost aqueous movement, like moonlight sinking through deep water or memory. From the dark horizon above, elongated tree trunks rendered in shimmering copper leaf stretch vertically, anchoring the sky to the land below. Their presence is silent yet watchful, sentinels in a forest of shifting light and shadow.
The trees seem to observe rather than inhabit, casting no branches or leaves—just slender, metallic bodies that glow against the inky backdrop. Beneath them, the colours ripple like reflections on a still lake, as if the viewer has stumbled into a hidden world where the trees keep quiet vigil over all that moves beneath.
A study in contrast—warm copper and cool blue, stillness and flow—Under the Watching Trees captures the feeling of being seen by the natural world, even in solitude.
 
20cm by 28cm mounted on board framed in a white floating frame 22.6cm by 31 cm