Lonely Tree Painting Van Gogh escape and the romance of

escape and the romance of far-off horizons

their tops dissolving into the haze as a stony stream threads through the valley floor

and soften a room dominated by pale walls

A painterly cluster of tulips rises against a soft duck-egg sky

or on an office wall where its clean blue lifts the mood

Lonely Tree Painting Van Gogh escape and the romance ofA single broad canopied oak commands this gentle pastoral scene, its sprawling branches heavy with green and golden touched summer leaves. Sunlight filters through the foliage to dapple the meadow grass at its base, where warm yellows mingle with cool greens in the soft pool of the tree's shade. Behind it, a hazy line of distant woodland fades into a pale, untroubled sky, the whole rendered in the blended, unhurried strokes of a classic oil study. The