…of the Forest

mixed media & silverleaf on leatherpaper.
framed in a wide contemporary silver frame with a chalk mat.
the framed size is 92cm x 118cm using a non-reflective UltraVue museum glass.

A mysterious hymn to the unseen realms of the green world, …of the Forest conjures a vertical symphony—veils of copper, silver, and viridian cascading like ancestral codes down a sacred veil. The composition evokes the sensation of entering a sentient grove, where the trees are not merely flora, but beings: watchers, listeners, record-keepers of time.

The lower half pulses with life-force energy—verdant, wild, and untamed—dripping with earthen wisdom and chlorophyll memory. Metallic silver glimmers like moonlight caught on bark and spirit, while rust-hued filaments rise as though drawn by invisible breath, echoing root and ritual, bloodline and braid.

Above, five ethereal presences emerge—totemic, luminous, crowned with radiant filigree. Are they spirits of the forest? Ancestors encoded in treeform? Their glowing auras suggest they are neither plant nor animal, but guardians of a threshold—perhaps the Dreaming, perhaps the liminal breath between worlds. A coiled sun or cosmic spiral watches from afar.

This painting invites us to listen with more than ears—to feel the language of trees, the hum of sap, and the rustle of ancient knowing. It is a work not simply to view, but to enter. To remember. To root.