Black and White Tree Canvas Monet a sense of the great

a sense of the great northern silence and of a creature wholly at home in the cold

her large dark eyes calm and curious beneath a pair of tall

ambers and inky shadows pair handsomely with chocolate leather

an invitation to slow down and look

Black and White Tree Canvas Monet a sense of the greatA solitary, ancient tree dominates this composition, its gnarled trunk twisting upward before the canopy fans out across the top of the frame. Photographed from below in moody monochrome, the dense crown of leaves reads almost black against a swirling, marbled sky of pale grey and white. Bare lower branches reach sideways like fingers, their silhouettes crisp against the bright backdrop. The textured, painterly treatment of the background lends the