Bank of Trees with View of Water and Mountains, Oil on Canvas Board rum bottle Pig and the mold number

Pig and the mold number 1335 written in pencil on the head

and despite being made of clay

Wonderfully surreal

like smoke rings

and it would be quite useful now for housing stashes of various sorts--and making a pretty good hiding place I'd think if placed up on a shelf

Bank of Trees with View of Water and Mountains, Oil on Canvas Board rum bottle Pig and the mold numberThis painting has an Arts and Craft feel to me, making me think of everything from Newcomb pottery to the paintings of Arthur Wesley Dow. With a nice lushness about it (I especially love the rich brown of those tree trunks), as well as brightness from the near white sky, and then this subtle spattering of orange red flowers across the green of the foreground, which lends an extra pop and makes it feel as if a fleeting moment captured. Found in my neck