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WendyMitchell — Winter tree
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Oils on canvasIt's taken me a while to finish this - partly because it's quite big and partly because I just couldn't get the branches right! Anyway I think now I'm ready to move on to the next canvas!
I would rather LOOK AT YOUR gallery than just thank you for faving my work. So please excuse my bad manners if you fave or comment on my work, because I may not be thanking you. Instead I will be looking at your work!
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Wendy, I very much like your painting "Winter tree" and thank you for sharing it with us. I was reminded, via that title, of two poems titled "Winter Trees" and thought you might like to see them (in case you've not done so already).
Winter Trees
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
— William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1921)
Winter Trees
The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve.
On their blotter of fog the trees
Seem a botanical drawing—
Memories growing, ring on ring,
A series of weddings.
Knowing neither abortions nor bitchery,
Truer than women,
They seed so effortlessly!
Tasting the winds, that are footless,
Waist-deep in history—
Full of wings, otherworldliness.
In this, they are Ledas.
O mother of leaves and sweetness
Who are these pietàs?
The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but chasing nothing.
— Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees (London: Faber and Faber, 1971)
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Thanks so much - that's very kind of you! Both poems are from poets that I admire, but I was not familiar with either poem. Thanks again. The photo that was the reference for this painting was taken by my husband in Thetford Forest.
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You're welcome, Wendy. "The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve." Ah, to be a poet! (It's obviously a difficult path to follow.) Your tree is quite brave—and stoical, too—standing apart from the other trees who* are huddling together for courage-in-numbers' sake.
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*I think of trees as people.
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Thank you - painting trees has been my project for this summer!
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