Animal Oil Painting on Canvas Monet Set it on a dining-room

Set it on a dining-room wall to bring colour and conversation to shared meals

The blue background is worked in loose painterly layers

The lively greens and crisp alpine blues work hand in hand with light timber furniture and woven textures

their canopies set ablaze in vivid gold and amber as autumn reaches its peak

Animal Oil Painting on Canvas Monet Set it on a dining-roomA marmot sits upright on a rocky outcrop in this loosely brushed oil study, its thick coat shifting from cinnamon and ochre across the belly to darker streaks along the back. The animal lifts its muzzle, whiskers catching the light, as though calling across an alpine slope. Around it, sketched tufts of mountain grass and pale grey stone ground the scene, while a soft sky of greys and muted blues sweeps behind in expressive, cloud like strokes. The