Frost King - a red deer in a frosty forest - art nouveau style Wood Print

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40 x 40 x 1.5 inches original oil painting of a red deer stag standing in clearing in a forest in winter. It is painted in thick paint in an art nouveau, expressionist and quite decorative style. The colours are warm pinks, lilacs, reds and Indian yellow but are muted by the white paint which makes the scene a winter frosty landscape. The stag stares at us imperiously, as deer do, as he wonders what we are doing crunching through the forest of his white world. Inspired by recent walk (Dec 2017) in several frosty forest's in East Sussex. Painted on deep edge canvas - edges white, no frame needed.

I am a professional artist based in Sussex and I paint large original landscape and seascape paintings in oil on canvas. I have a Fine Art degree in sculpture (Brighton, 1983) but am mostly self taught as a painter. My painting style is a fusion of Expressionist, Impressionist, Semi-abstract, Art Deco, a little Art Nouveau and whatever mood I am in that day. I often practice a kind of Impressionism in that I walk, look at things and then paint from memory. The result is that I paint what was impressed upon me when I looked at a landscape - thus a kind of Impressionism! (I hope that makes sense). I am inspired by the patterns of nature and the energy, colours and spaces of the landscapes and animals around me. I like to think that...