The Red Trees

Love it Amanda. The colours really sing and it does have a slightly abstract quality to it. I really like the texture in the leaves. I would like to see some more paintings like this.

Thoughts: a super painting, exciting and full of interest. Criticism: hard to think of any - in fact I can't.

Well..... in for a penny, in for a pound - fools rush in where angels fear..... To my taste, this straddles the naturalistic/abstract divide without quite deciding if it wants to come down on one side or the other. I'm unconvinced by that big tree on the right - it seems to dwindle at the top in a way which isn't, I know, intended to be especially "natural", but which also doesn't quite come off in design terms. But then, I do have a rather literal mind: other opinions are available, stocks can go up in value as well as down, errors and omissions excepted..... I think the trouble for me is that this isn't the kind of painting that does it for me, and given that starting point I was sort of looking for things I could find that were wrong with it. You can see a figure in that tree, if you keep looking - which is its greatest strength.