Thursday, February 10, 2011

JAPANESE CHERRY TREES IN WINTER


These 100 year old Japanese Cherries can be found in one of the most tranquil places in the Merion area, the graveyard of the Merion Friends Meeting House.  I missed painting these old beauties when they flowered but hope to catch them this year.  If you want to cummune with the imagined spirit of the long dead, this is the place to go.  Click on this link to read about the interesting history of these trees.  Here also is a link to other paintings of this site.  Friends Meeting building and Stables.









2 comments:

Linda Popple said...

Beautiful and the depth is really good! Love the shadows. Well done!

Kim C Pelletier said...

There’s a nice light to this painting that I enjoy – I hope that you get around to paint those cherry trees when they blossom in April – It must be quite a pretty sight.