Friday 26 October 2012

Maple leaves

In spite of all the recent rain, the trees are finally beginning to look autumnal. Artist Julia Loken picked these elegant maple leaves from a tree just around the corner from her house in Eynsham.

She says: "I thought they were so beautiful, that I just had to paint them. I love using watercolour as a medium partly because of its transparency, and I enjoy the challenge of finding different ways of exploring this. In this painting (fresh from the brush!) I have deliberately kept the paint very watery and delicate, so that the wonderful patterns and shapes made by the overlapping leaves are not obscured, but emphasised.

Maple Leaves ( size 13" x 10") will be on sale, sensitively framed, for £300.