Autumn's Arrival

P. Blair

Autumn’s Arrival

24 x 36

Oil

Peter Blair an international artist known primarily as a seascape painter has answered the calling of Mother Nature with his eloquent rendition of autumn’s season approach.  Autumn’s Arrival metaphorically illustrates the momentous and distinctive ecological spell of death and dying. With a hazy lackadaisical mundane landscape pictured between the two sets of Birch Trees, Blair forces us to come to grips with the colder climate, the nakedness of the barren earth, and the dormant vegetation that lurks and encroaches into every crevice of this landscape. Warm tones, contrasted with cool blues, and greens; the birches stand tall like stoic testaments to the stubbornness of mankind. Young in girth, the trees have a long lyrical lineage ahead of them as they will once again face the destitute of autumn’s climate-accepting the yearly occurrence year after year, for another century.  Dotted with rudy red brushes and pockets of marshy wilderness, Blair elevates the tale telling yellows of the leaves into the highest compositional position available- making sure they are seen, referenced, and paused; but allowing for more of the particulars to play an important role in the landscape viewing.

-Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

JR Mooney Galleries