Watcher on Lake Huron grew out of the quality of light you find in the afterglow of a sunset, when all of the sunset watchers have gone home. The light and the colours are never the same twice.
This lone willow watches. That's its job. Staying rooted while everything around it moves.
Encaustic paint — layer on layer of beeswax and pigment — catches light the way water does, from the inside out. The tree is rendered through laser print photo transfer from my own photograph of this iconic willow at Goderich's Main Beach. At 48 inches wide it has room to breathe, and the horizontal format mirrors the shoreline itself.
Watcher on Lake Huron is an original encaustic painting, 48 × 16 inches, framed in natural wood and ready to hang. It is available by inquiry only. $1600
This piece is part of my Bent Tree Series — explore the full collection including prints available in my shop.
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