Black and White Tree Canvas Monet an invitation to slow down

an invitation to slow down and look

A burst of tropical life to energise any room it watches over

Behind it swirls a marbled background of turquoise

The painting breathes the unhurried charm of the southern French countryside in high summer

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

Black and White Tree Canvas Monet an invitation to slow downA 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