Landscape with Trees
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A rapid, highly expressive landscape sketch. The left side is anchored by a cluster of trees painted in thick, unblended strokes of deep crimson and rust red, standing out against a turbulent, heavily textured sky of grey and muted blue. The foreground consists of a broad, sweeping field in warm tones of ochre and brown. Davies uses this small-scale format to experiment with raw color and gestural brushwork. By leaving areas of the dark underpainting visible and avoiding precise detail, he captures the immediate, shifting atmosphere of a blustery autumn day with distinct modern energy.