The Patience of Trees is a semi abstracted woodland to get lost in. There's a hare lost in there too. I have used bright colours and subtle tones to evoke a calm and magical environment. It was painted using numerous layers of highly pigmented oil paint on a hand stretched and triple primed canvas. The title comes from a John Roedel poem that really resonated with me:

I was not born for these times—

it's all too sharp, too loud, too fast for me.

I was made for an age of dirt roads, soft light, quiet skies,

and where our kindness has

the patience of trees.

~ john roedel