Large Bull Painting Van Gogh Glossy green leaves fan out

Glossy green leaves fan out below

This woodland scene speaks of summer mornings and the gentle solitude of the forest floor

The photographic clarity gives every wave and slope a vivid presence

the kind that comes from gazing into the sheer scale of the cosmos

forks of white lightning splitting a sky packed with turbulent

Large Bull Painting Van Gogh Glossy green leaves fan outA massive dark bull strides straight towards the viewer through tall, sun bleached grass, its great curved horns sweeping wide against the light. Golden hour sun rakes across its muscular shoulders and broad brow, catching dust kicked up by heavy hooves into a soft amber haze. The savannah behind it dissolves into warm, blurred ochres, throwing all the weight onto the advancing animal. Photographic and cinematic, the scene captures sheer mass and