Northern Lights Landscape Painting Van Gogh early-day energy

early-day energy

lending the whole an air of dreamlike Victorian invention

The riotous warm and cool tones spark against neutral greys and pale woods

Tender and quietly heart-warming

A timber-clad alpine chalet perches on a steep grassy slope

Northern Lights Landscape Painting Van Gogh early-day energyVivid curtains of magenta, violet and electric green rain down from a deep starlit sky in this sweeping panoramic vista. The aurora falls in vertical streaks behind a horizon of low snow dusted mountains, while tall pines stand sentinel on either edge of the frame. A vast snowfield rolls across the foreground, tinged lilac and blue by the coloured glow overhead. The wide format and saturated hues give the scene a cinematic grandeur, the heavens ablaze