Warren Hadley built this forest stream painting one knife stroke at a time. Clear water steps down a staircase of rounded boulders, each one wrapped in moss and scattered with fallen orange leaves. Massive dark trunks stand on both sides, and the far end of the stream disappears into soft green and golden light.
The palette knife impasto gives everything a chiseled, tiled texture. The rocks look carved, the water breaks into flat flashes of turquoise and white, and the bark picks up slivers of blue and rust. It reads as a contemporary landscape painting with the quiet pull of an autumn river painting.
It's for anyone who hikes to find spots like this, or wishes they did more often. If you want serene wall art for the bedroom, a cool, rushing creek under old trees is an easy thing to wake up to.
The upright format makes it tall narrow wall art that fits a slim wall beside a window, a hallway end, or the space next to a bookcase. As canvas wall art it brings green, brown and water-blue into a cabin, a reading corner, or a quiet office.