Trees In Art

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

"Sequestered Dreams" is a big painting with a lot of imagination.  It's playful in an elegant way.

The eyes on the birch and aspen trees have a way of mesmerizing the viewer.  I love aspen and birch trees because they symbolize giving, strength, reaching for the light, and connection.

This 36"x48" acrylic on canvas painting is available to purchase by contacting my through my website.

I would love for you to become a collector and experience the joy of owning artwork that uplifts and inspires your soul!  My website:  CLICK HERE

©1990-2012 Trees In Art by Jill Saur, all rights reserved

Trees In Art

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." 
- Khalil Gibran

My new 8"10".5" oil palette knife and brush painting, "Relinquished", is richly textured on the trees, revealing their "bone structure" against the value tones of winter. The title suggests that place in life where we relinquish ourselves and open up our hearts and minds to fresh inspiration and new possibilities.

I love aspens in winter. Their beautiful white trunks and dark branches mingle with the dark shadows cast upon the white snow, creating a profound beauty that is best experienced in silence.

This painting is available to purchase by contacting me through my website.  CLICK HERE

©2012, Trees In Art by Jill Saur, all rights reserved

Trees In Art

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects." - Edna Ferber

My favorite tree down at the Chattahoochee River, hangs on to life through one lone root in the hard clay soil. This is my place, my heart, my inspiration for many of my paintings.  To see my artwork, please visit my website.  CLICK HERE

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Trees In Art

Today, I reflected back on my 16"x20" acrylic abstract tree painting, "Fire and Water".  While painting this deeply emotional piece, I watched it emerge before my eyes as if I wasn't painting it, it was painting me!  

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you". Isaiah 43:2 

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Trees In Art

"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human." - Georges Rouault (French Painter) 1872-1958

Fresh off the easel, my 11"×14"x1" acrylic palette knife painting "Delightful Encounter",  has loads of texture. This painting was inspired by one of my "special trees" that I like to photograph down at the Chattahoochee River.

This painting is available to be purchased by contacting me through my website.

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Trees In Art

Trees in art, my favorite subject to paint!  What's the allure?  Since the beginning of time, in fact since Genesis, trees have been and continue to be used to teach us great lessons in life.  In art, I've been inspired by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh's renderings of trees. 

However, the single painting that influenced my love for telling stories by rendering trees was one painting that I saw when I was a teenager.  In fact, I watched every stroke being applied as the soulful rendering of this one tree came to life.  The artist was my mother.  It was sort of a fantasy painting with a light that emanated deep inside the forest, where a little cabin rested comfortably in the woods.  It wasn't until years after my mother passed away that I heard my Uncle relate what he thought my mother was portraying in this painting.  It was the only time I ever saw my Uncle cry.  

We move so quickly in this world.  I hope as a people we don't forget to slow down and stop to enjoy the beauty and the meaning in our every day lives! 

These two 36"x48" acrylic paintings on canvas are both for sale.  Although they are two separate works of art, they are meant to go together.  Separate, they stand alone as a work of art, together, they complete one another!  Like my mothers tree, these trees emanate a lot of warm light.   www.JillSaurFineArt.com

©1990-2012 Trees In Art by Jill Saur, all rights reserved