Seagulls in Flight Painting Frame:Poplar prestige The honeyed ambers

The honeyed ambers

this evocative scene sets a red stag in a sunlit clearing deep within a golden forest

the quiet authority of a creature wholly at home in the wild

Its amber and teal palette plays well against grey

palette-knife composition

Seagulls in Flight Painting Frame:Poplar prestige The honeyed ambersThree seagulls sweep low across a restless sea in this richly textured study, their white wings caught mid beat as they skim the crests of breaking waves. The water is rendered in layered strokes of navy, slate and bright cobalt, shot through with foaming whites where the swell tumbles into spray. Above, the sky carries warm flecks of copper and gold worked into a soft blue, the palette knife marks giving the whole scene a tactile, almost sculptural