Black Background Landscape Painting Van Gogh scattering tiny highlights across the

scattering tiny highlights across the smooth veined surface of the leaves

slender pine trunks rise in dense ranks through a shadowed forest

The piece evokes the slow beauty of a Mediterranean mountain retreat

The oceans run from pale turquoise near the coasts to a deep

washed sky glows behind the treetops

Black Background Landscape Painting Van Gogh scattering tiny highlights across theA wooded riverbank glows out of deep darkness in this richly textured abstract landscape. Against an inky black and teal ground, foliage blazes in bursts of amber, rust and ochre, the impasto strokes flecked with white sparks like sunlight scattering through autumn leaves. At the centre, a still stretch of water mirrors the warm canopy and the cool, misty light breaking between the trees. The thick, palette knife texture gives the scene a brooding,