Stunted Trees - Lizard Downs

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Like this a lot Bobbie.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Sun 28 Apr 18:09:13

Good one Bobbie ☺️

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Sun 28 Apr 18:15:59

I like linking poetry with painting, gives it that something extra, and I like your landscape.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Sun 28 Apr 18:35:56

The poem worked wonders!

Posted by Heather Love on Mon 29 Apr 06:39:41

Very nice Bobbie.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Mon 29 Apr 08:38:58

I like it, especially the colour palette. Very harmonious.

Posted by Diane Boswell on Mon 29 Apr 14:47:35

Thank you everyone. I did have fun painting this!

Posted by Bobbie Matulja on Mon 29 Apr 16:21:39

I've been reading (and often re-reading) a poem a day for many years. If something has stuck in my brain, it often informs my choice of subject.

Posted by Bobbie Matulja on Mon 29 Apr 16:39:54

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28/04/2024

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I was trying a new support today - thick plywood primed with 4 coats of clear gesso - and using up some leftover Michael Harding oil paint from yesterday. These weathered trees took my eye when my husband and I followed a bridleway across the Lizard Downs in August 2021. I had Julia Alvarez's poem "Last Trees" running through my head while I was painting them.

About the Artist

Bobbie Matulja

I'm a busy Churchwarden from a rural parish in South Shropshire. I've been painting and drawing for 13 years - so I would describe myself as an experienced amateur. I'm a member of Ludlow Art Society and the Ludlow Friday Group, who paint landscape en plein air during the summer months with…

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