Oil painting on linen.
Size: 75 H x 115 W x 3 cm

This painting captures the experience of being lost in a vast deep forest. A vignette of the painting wind fallen trees by the Russian master landscape painter Ivan Shishkin has been sampled in the right of the artwork. Torrents of water overflow into the scene evoking a feeling of reverence for natural disasters and their unique ability to reshape and reform the land. The Scandinavian and Russian taiga consists of coniferous forests dominated by Pinus sylvestris (in drier locations), often with an understory of Juniperus communis, Picea abies and Picea obovata and a significant admixture of Betula pubescens and Betula pendula. Larix sibirica is characteristic of the eastern part of the ecoregion. Geobotanically, it belongs to the Northeastern European floristic province of the Circumboreal Region of the Holarctic Kingdom.