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Maple Path: An In-Depth Look
Friday, January 12, 2018
I went to Japan over Thanksgiving to explore the famous fall colors in Kyoto. The mountains surrounding the city are full of Buddhist temples with incredible gardens and maple trees. My favorite part of Kyoto was Arashiyama Park, home to several beautiful temples and wide, expansive grounds of natural beauty.
I perceive trees to be the people of the landscape. Each tree is unique and has its own spiritual personality. I love capturing their graceful bows and ever-changing pattern of leaves with my paint brush.
The painting "Maple Path" captures a scene from Sogenchi Garden, at the Tenryu-ji Temple. You can see the world-famous bamboo grove in the background behind the maple trees. It was interesting how the different maple trees changed color at different rates. There would be one maple with every single leaf a bright cadmium-yellow, and several feet away would be a maple with a whole rainbow of hues from yellow to purple... and yet further down the walk would be a maple clothed exclusively in brilliant oranges and reds.
The brush strokes in "Maple Path" are loose and impressionistic, conveying a sense of movement within the painting. When you see the painting in person, you can experience the thick texture of the paint and lustrous sheen of the oil color.
The painting will be framed in a gilded floater frame, to set off the colors in the piece. Here is a digital "in-room mockup" of the painting, so you can get a sense of the painting's dimensions:
Maple Path
Oil on canvas, 48 x 71 inches
View my collection of Japanese Maple paintings here.
I hope you enjoyed the in-depth look!
Sincerely,
Erin Hanson
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About Erin
ERIN HANSON is the creator of Open Impressionism, a new painting style taught in art schools worldwide. Hanson is one of the most prolific artists in history, with over 3,000 oil paintings sold to eager collectors. With millions of followers, Hanson has become an iconic, driving force in the rebirth of impressionism, inspiring thousands of other artists to pick up the brush and join her in the Open Impressionism movement.
Hanson began painting in oils at 8 years old. As a teenager, she apprenticed at a mural studio where she worked on 40-foot-long paintings while selling art commissions on the side. After being told it was too hard to make a living as an artist, she got her degree in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley. Afterward, Erin became a rock climber at Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Inspired by the colorful scenery she climbed, she returned to her love of painting and began creating one new painting every week.
Twenty years later, Hanson now resides in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, surrounded by beautiful wine country. She gathers inspiration for her paintings from the natural landscape around her, photo safaris abroad, and backpacking through National Parks. She seeks the beautiful colors of the golden hour and captures these colors on her canvases. Her painting studio and art gallery is 18,000 square feet (the length of a football field), and is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday.