Adam Boulter


Trees and Forests


Trees and forests have always exerted a primordial fascination for me. They crop up in nearly every religion and folk tradition. Calm and inviting, or sinister and threatening, they have  personalities, and painting them is more like portraiture than landscape.

Line of pines looking north,
the Friary, Hillfield, Dorset,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 38cm x 28cm
Avenue to the graveyard,
the Friary, Hillfield, Dorset,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 38cm x 28cm
Apple tree in the Friary,
Hillfield, Dorset,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 38cm x 28cm
Old forest, Hillfield, Dorset,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 19cm x 28cm
Re-sprouting tree, Etchingham, Kent,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 19cm x 28cm
Red tree,
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 20cm x 31cm
Early spring roof tops,
Verteuil our Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Pine tree,
Lamalou-les-Bains, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Budding tree,
Lamalou-les-Bains, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Fuddling tree,
Lamalou-les-Bains, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Open cast mine,
Lamalou-les-Bains, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Orange buds
Lamalou-les-Bains, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Buddling forest, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Buddling forest, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Buddling forest, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Buddling forest, Languedoc
Pastel on Paper, 2023, 23cm x 31cm
Blossom tree,
Ruffec, Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Blossom and back streets,
Ruffec, Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Blossom and roofs,
Ruffec, Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Thorn Blossom
Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Blossom over a compost heap,
Hanc, Deux Sevres
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Old caravan and Blossom,
Ruffec, Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm
Old willow over the moat,
Ruffec, Charente
Pastel on Paper, 2022, 23cm x 31cm