The Spirit of the Forest

150cm x 60cm Acrylic 
The Spirit of the Forest is a quiet homage to the wild—a living presence that holds memory, wisdom, and renewal. This work was born from solitary walks beneath the canopy, where light filters through leaves like whispered truths, and the earth hums with ancestral rhythm.
Layered in green tones and textured stillness, the painting invites the viewer into a space of pause and return. Each stroke echoes the forest’s gentle insistence: that healing is cyclical, that clarity lives in the quiet, and that we are never truly separate from the land that holds us.
This piece honours the unseen—the spirit that moves through green, the silence that speaks louder than words, and the soul’s soft unfolding in wild places.
Before painting, I walk. I let the forest speak first.
There’s a rhythm in the leaves, a pulse beneath the soil, and a stillness that softens the noise of the world. These walks are not just part of my process—they are the process. I return with green in my lungs and quiet in my bones.
This piece began not with a brush, but with bare feet on earth and a breath held long enough to listen. It carries the imprint of those moments—where the land becomes a teacher, and the act of creating becomes a form of remembering.
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