Happy March

Tall bare birches with pink and violet-tinted trunks rise against a bright blue sky above a snow-covered farmyard. A dark wooden cottage with a steep roof sits behind a weathered plank fence, and a small figure in red crouches near a woodpile in the mid-ground, while a path of trodden snow leads the eye back toward the buildings.

Thick, loaded brushstrokes build up the snow in ridges of white, blue, and lavender, catching cold shadow and warm sunlight in the same passage. The trees are painted with quick, choppy strokes of pink, gold, and grey against the saturated blue sky, giving the whole scene a crisp, sparkling, high-spirited winter energy.