Rest

Three gnarled willow trunks grow together from a grassy bank, their feathery green-gray foliage catching the light while a bare, forked branch at the crown cradles an old twig nest. Below, a river curves through flat marshland toward a dark distant treeline, its still surface mirroring the pale sky and grasses.

Muted greens, ochres, and grays dominate, with soft impasto built up on the bark and looser washes describing sky and water. Diffuse light flattens the clouds while warm autumn grass glows in the foreground, producing a hushed, restful stillness broken only by the fragile abandoned nest above.