Spring Buds Break Their Frost

 
Spring Buds Break Their Frost, contemporary landscape painting by Peter Kettle inspired by the spring thaw and returning colour of Hokkaido, Japan.

100 x 120 cm

oil and mixed media on canvas

 

Spring Buds Break Their Frost captures the first signs of spring emerging through the Hokkaido landscape. Turquoise, green and flashes of warmer colour break through the remaining traces of winter, while layered and fragmented marks suggest woodland beginning to stir after months beneath the snow. The painting explores that brief transition when the landscape shifts from stillness towards growth.

 
Peter Kettle