Fireside Browns
Winter in espresso, chestnut, walnut and cream. Firelight on old books, horses against snow, owls and hounds, tonal dusk, dried grasses and textures that feel like leather and wood. Deep and enveloping rather than autumnal.
The palette
- Espresso#3A2B24
- Dark chocolate#4A342B
- Chestnut#6A4937
- Cognac#8A5E42
- Burnt caramel#A36F49
- Walnut#735744
- Warm taupe#9A8573
- Mushroom#B0A296
- Oatmeal#D8CCBD
- Cream#EEE4D6
By the fire
Candlelight on an open book, the table after supper, a room gone brown and gold at the edges.

Philosopher In Meditation
Rembrandt

Interior After Dinner, 1868–69
Claude Monet

Before The Fireplace I
Mary Cassatt

When The Children Have Gone To Bed
Carl Larsson

Still Life With Bible
Vincent van Gogh

Still Life With Violin
Andrey Morozov

Evening Reading
Jai Johnson

Books On The Porch II
Silvia Vassileva
The larder
Bread, figs, a dark bottle, grasses in stoneware: still lifes with weight.
Horses in the cold
Chestnut and bay against snow and taupe, painted loosely.
Woodland company
The stag at the edge of the trees, the hound by the stove, the owl in the rafters.

Stag On The Watch
Rosa Bonheur

A Stag
Rosa Bonheur

Old Master
Jai Johnson

The Guardian II
Albena Hristova

The Dog
Francisco de Goya

Barbouyo
Rosa Bonheur

Study Of A Dog
Rosa Bonheur

Asio Otus
The von Wright Brothers

Great Horned Owl, From Birds Of America
John James Audubon

Tengmalm's Owl
John Selby

Barn Owl, From Birds Of America
John James Audubon

Buffon's Natural History Of Birds
Georges-Louis Leclerc

American Woodcock
John James Audubon

Woodland Grain Portraits VII
Grace Popp
Dusk and tone
Tonalist evenings and Barbizon woods, where the whole landscape settles into walnut and umber.

The Home Of The Heron
George Inness

Forest Landscape In The Moonlight
Georg Eduard Otto Saal

Lake With Dead Trees
Thomas Cole

Moody Amongst The Reeds
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Dusk Panoramic Vista
Ethan Harper

Twilight Landscape With Dark Trees
Ethan Harper

Twilight Grove
Danhui Nai

Woodland Shimmering Light
Tim O'Toole

Remembering A Woodland Walk I
Tim O'Toole
Winter woods, in line
Etchings, pencil studies and pale birches: the season drawn rather than painted.
Mountain lodge
Sargent's alpine sketchbook, a Bierstadt study, timber chalets under snow.
Dried and pressed
Ferns in an old book, pampas, seed heads and wilted stems in oatmeal and mushroom.
Grain and texture
Abstracts that read like leather, bark, stone and smoke.





































