Artist: Sally Clark

Bonsai Tree 盆栽

oil on linen canvas
18 x 20 inches
framed
2016

In Bonsai Trees, Clark adapts a seventeenth-century Dutch still life to modern tastes, presenting with a remarkable degree of exactitude a striking bonsai tree with three vibrant lemons placed on a white tablecloth against a neutral background. In her luminous paintings capturing the momentary quality of light, Clark incites viewers to explore the mystery surrounding these various apparitions of light on the natural landscape and within starker interior scenes.