English Yew by the Bridge

Ground still damp from the rain, no one about. Clouds moving fast overhead — sun in and out, shadows shifting across the gravel. The yew is what stops you: domed, dense, impossibly dark through its own crown. A wooden footbridge crosses the creek just here; you’re just about to step onto it.

An original watercolour painting of the Waterhouse Woodland Gardens in Bushy Park, the second-largest of London’s Royal Parks, beside Hampton Court Palace. The Woodland Gardens are fenced off from the park’s deer, a sheltered enclave of streams, azaleas and old trees threaded by the Longford River, the channel cut for Charles I in the 1630s to carry water to the palace. The yew stands dark and domed above one of the timber footbridges, the gravel still wet from a shower and the light breaking through again.

Image Size: 12″ × 16″ (30cm × 41cm)
Art Medium: Watercolour on 100% cotton paper
Availability: Original Painting £400 · Giclée art prints A4 £30, A3 £45
Other: Signed original, supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity
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