The girl in this painting is fearful, lost, alone and anxious, not knowing what is about to happen and how it all will end. However although she cannot see it through the overwhelming emotions of the moment, her brave rescuer is already in pursuit.
This painting is created with more loose and rough brush strokes than most of my paintings and parts of the canvas are barely covered in order to help convey the disorganisation and disorientation of the girl’s frenetic experience in the wild and uncontrolled forest.
The thick black branches are completely three dimensional and stand out about an inch away from the canvas, surrounding the girl and reaching in towards her, ready to snatch her up. The tips of the ominous branches look like grabbing clawed hands
