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Winter Woodland

Snowy scenes from art, life and nature

Molly Wilders
Jan 27, 2024
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An excerpt from a poem by Mary Oliver. Snow was falling, so much like stars, filling the dark trees, that one could easily imagine, its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.
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Right image is a photograph of light snow falling through a sparse winter woodland, a path winding through the trees, is filling with snow. Left image is a painting of heavy snow falling in a woodland, the ground is completely white.
2. & 3.
Right image is a watercolour of a snowy woodland path, large trees in the background and the outline of a single person walking in the distance. Left image is a photograph of a small snowy hill with a large tree growing up behind it. The two trees in each image look very similar.
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A photograph of a single tree with four large branches that sit low to the ground, covered in snow.
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A triptych of photographs of a snowy woodland, the middle image focuses on a single tree in the midst of deep forest.
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An oil painting of a dark, snow covered woodland with blue tones and orange leaves.
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An oil painting of a woodland, the ground is covered in snow and the light looks soft and blue.
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Right image is a bright painting of woods covered in snow, the trees are casting shadows on the snow covered ground and there are hints of bright green, orange and blues. Left image is a photograph of two tree trunks lit yellow in the sun, their shadows casting blue over the snowy ground.
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Top photograph is the bottom of a tree, covered in snow and bathed in orange light, the shadows on the snow are a bright blue. Bottom photograph is of a woodland floor, the light is dappling shadows over the snowy ground.
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Left photograph is a country lane covered in snow and lined with trees, the snow is falling heavily and the side of a cottage can be seen around the corner. The right image is an etching of a snowy country scene, a cottage is in the background surrounded by trees and the foreground is filled with snow.
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Photograph of a snow covered field, a small copse of trees are seen in the foreground, a snow peppered hill fills the background.
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An oil painting of a winter scene, a snowy foreground with thick, dark green coniferous woodland and a snow topped mountain in the background.
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Left photograph is a close up of hundreds of snow covered branches, the light is blue and overcast. The right image is an oil painting of some trees on a snowy hillside, their branches are displayed as a tangled wave.
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Watercolour painting of a snowy woodland scene, branches and orange leaves are scattered in the foreground as if in the aftermath of a storm.
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1. Excerpt from the poem Snowy Night by Mary Oliver
2. Tillywhally Woods, Tuesday 16th January 2024
3. Untitled (Trees in Snow) by George Elbert Burr (1883)
4. Wandelaar in de sneeuw by Maria Bilders-van Bosse (c.1847 - 1900)
5-7, 16. Loch Fitty, Sunday 14th February 2021
8. Brooding Silence by John F. Carlson (n.d.)
9. Woods in Winter by John F. Carlson (c.1912)
10. Sunlit Winter Landscape by Pekka Halonen (1911)
11-12. Dunfermline, Thursday 11th February 2021
13. Kinross, Wednesday 17th January 2024
14. Tillywhally Woods, Saturday 30th December 2023
15. Winterlandschap met boerderij en bomen by Elias Stark (1891)
17. Mount Monadnock by Abbott Handerson Thayer (c.1918)
18. Kinross, Saturday 2nd December 2023
19. Day in March by Pekka Halonen (1910)
20. Bomen in de sneeuw by Willem Witsen (c.1870-1923)

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