Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh Hang it along a stairway

Hang it along a stairway wall where the eye can travel into the distance

The dripped accents and pale background keep the whole piece light

A single bare tree stands alone on open grassland while the sky above it burns

edged by dense ranks of pine that darken the left shore and frame the water

Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh Hang it along a stairwayThis lively oil painting gathers a shoal of sardines in vigorous palette knife strokes, their silvered bodies streaked with blue, ochre and flashes of warm gold. The fish overlap and angle across the canvas, wide round eyes catching the light as they seem to dart through cool, watery blues and greens behind them. Thick impasto gives every scale and fin a tactile, almost sculptural quality. The energetic handling turns a simple subject into a swirl of