Blue Belle Woods

🌿 The Deer That Found Me
 
This painting began after a spring walk through Killenthomas Woods in Rathangan, Co. Kildare, bluebells in full bloom, kids and dogs running ahead, and light filtering through the trees.
 
Back in the studio, I started painting from memory, no plan, just feeling.
Then I noticed a shape in the brushstrokes… a deer, peeking out from behind a tree.
 
I hadn’t meant to paint it, but it was there.
It felt like the painting had chosen it, not me.
 
Acrylic on canvas
Measures 60cm x 50cm