"Gnangara Pines 1" A Western Australian landscape oil painting - Private Collection
Gnangara Pines 1 - Landscape view of Western Australia
A few years ago I spent a couple of weeks of summer painting in the Gnangara Pine Forests north of Perth. I produced a number of late afternoon and evening plein air oil sketches.
Last year I used that reference material to paint several studio landscapes of the Gnangara Pines for an exhibition.
This stand of stragglers had been left after tree felling operations. I presume the reason was to provide a wildlife refuge for the fauna that lived in the cleared areas of the plantation.
I was struck by the lyrical pattern of trunks, branches and foliage shapes that created a fantastic sillouette. As the sun was setting on this semi-humid hot evening, the dark pine foliage caught the last of the light and lit up with red highlights.
This painting belongs to a private collector now but I do have a selection of other original Australian landscape oil paintings that are available to purchase.
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