River Elm

"Walking Elm" 24x14" Oil on linen, birch panel_NFS

We saw this tree among many similar ones at the river edge at Jamestown. The banks had been flooded so many times that the soil was washed out from underneath, leaving daylight and giving the trees the look like they could just walk away. I originally called this "Mother Elm" because I had a foal on the right side, under the branches. I was never happy with the arrangement, and in the course of trying to change it, I ruined the whole right side, soooo, I just cut it off, and voila! Now the painting is a portrait of a tree, and I like it!