First Snow, Smith Lake
©Kesler Woodward 2006
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 60" (image)
49 1/2" x 61 1/2" (framed)
We are home...resettled in Fairbanks, after a few months less than two years away. We returned in late September, in time to enjoy an unusually late, mild, and beautiful fall. This is the first painting I completed in my new studio--a view of the season's first snow just beginning to fall on Smith Lake, one of my favorite spots in the 2000-acre University of Alaska woods. It's also the latest, and probably last, in the series of falling snow paintings that I have been working on for nearly a year now, almost all of which are in my solo show at New Horizons Gallery in Fairbanks, opening November 3.
The Tanana River near our house is nearly completely frozen already, and there is snow on the ground now--enough for me to spend hours this week joyfully re-exploring area trails on my cross-country skis, marveling anew at the wonders of early winter in the boreal forest. It's nice to be home.
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