Christmas Landscape Painting Under Northern Lights - Canvas Wall Art

A small row of cottages sits deep in snow, windows glowing butter yellow, while the sky above them goes wild with northern lights. Emory Thatcher laid the aurora in broad, flat sweeps of the palette knife, pale green bleeding into violet and deep blue, with tiny flicks of white for stars and drifting snow. It's a quiet christmas landscape painting with a lot of movement overhead.

The impasto is thick and you can see every pass of the knife. Snowdrifts catch little ridges of cream and gold, red chimneys poke up from heavy white roofs, and bare birches lean at the edges. As a christmas scene painting it skips the obvious props and lets the light do the talking, which makes it feel like contemporary christmas art that still has plenty of warmth.

This one is for anyone who loves long winter nights, dreams of seeing the aurora, or wants holiday wall art that can stay up well past New Year's. It works just as well as winter wall art from December through February, and makes a thoughtful gift for collectors of christmas art prints with a painterly hand.

Hang it over a sofa, a fireplace mantel, or a cozy reading corner where the blues and greens can glow against warm wood or soft white walls. In a bigger size it becomes large christmas wall art that anchors a living room or entryway. Printed as canvas wall art, the texture of the knife work reads clearly up close.