"Windblown", Ucluelet BC, Canada
Oil on Canvas
36”x48”x1.5”
This painting is a B&W version of a windblown tree on the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet. The second in a series of black and white spruce trees on the trail. Many of you that walk the trail may recognize it. Portions of the tree have been burnt by salt and sculpted by the wind over time. As branches break and salt burns the needles off the tree, it takes the form of a gnarly kind of coastal Bonsai tree. Windblown trees are very common on the coast as the sea-spray and wind gradually deform trees into twisted and bent fragments. The painting includes layers of intricately detailed needles, branches and twigs. I like painting the intricacy of this type of detail.
1.5" Canvas is back-wrapped and stapled for a clean presentation for display without framing. This Canadian-made canvas is 1% pure cotton stretched on ¾" deep basswood stretcher bars. It features 7̵oz (237̵gsm) canvas, primed to a finished weight of 1oz (328–385̵gsm).