Asian village

Drooping, frond-like branches hang from the top of the canvas over a dense mass of green leaves, small clusters of white blossoms and touches of yellow scattered through the mid-ground, and dark maroon plant stalks rising in the foreground. No building, path or figure is visible anywhere in the composition; the view reads as a close, immersive tangle of garden greenery rather than a settlement.

Variegated greens, from olive to sage, dominate the surface, with a pale sky glimpsed only at the top edge. Thick, knife-applied impasto builds a tactile, ridged surface, and the scattered whites and touches of red-violet punctuate the mass, giving the whole a vigorous, dreamlike garden atmosphere.