40 of 70

|

wood prints black and white wood prints deer wood prints spring wood prints wildlife wood prints tree wood prints

paintings black and white paintings deer paintings spring paintings wildlife paintings tree paintings

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few)
You will hear the beat of a horse�s feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.

First of all, if you see something on my site that you like, but you would like it changed in some way, maybe colour, composition or something else then please tell me. Maybe I can do it for you. I was never really interested in art at school, more interested in the technical side of things which is probably why I choose a full time career as a Civil Engineer and a part time career as a Resererve Army Soldier. But, in 2011 I went to a Craft Fair in Milton Keynes and fell in love. I saw a guy named Paul Bryant painting and selling his beautiful paintings straight off the easel, I realised I had fallen in love with painting, not I hasten to add with Paul Bryant. From that moment on, I started painting, I painted predominantly...