22 Trees (2026) Original Oil Painting by Mark Thirlwell

‘22 Trees’ is an intimate, atmospheric oil painting describing a shifting Pennine landscape. Worked on A4 Aquafine 300gsm paper, the piece carries a vivid sense of movement: a sky built from layered blues and soft whites, a horizon marked by loose, gestural tree forms, and a foreground where warm earth colours flicker through the field like remembered paths.

The brushwork is energetic yet controlled, creating a balance between abstraction and landscape readability. Colour passages — cool blues, moss greens, ochres and flashes of red — interact in a way that suggests weather, distance and the quiet rhythm of trees moving in wind. Despite its modest scale, the painting feels expansive, offering a moment of stillness inside a shifting environment.

Materials used:

Oils on paper

Details:

• Oil painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 21 x 29.7 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 15.6 x 24.3cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky