Painting apple tree has been my wish for a while. There is a small apple tree just under my window, growing at the edge of the forest. It is a small one, not very young, growing somewhat under an angle trying to reach the sun perhaps. Not much of a tree really , it is even hard to spot it among some other smaller trees at the edge of the forest. Until the spring comes. Each year again the spring covers this little tree in hundreds of white, slightly pinkish blossoms, making it to appear almost as a smaller cloud of snowflakes dancing among early green leaves of the near by birch and spruce trees….

It is funny as I’ve been admiring this tree for so many springs but haven’t got any particular idea how to paint it. Until this time, as I was sitting instead of standing by the same window and as I’ve looked outside I’ve spotted the tree, this time under a different perspective. Which was that trigger that has made me see the tree as a painting to be…..

Spring trees in bloom have that symbolical meaning of rebirth, as they are born into each spring anew. And they also have a certain glow of delicate blossoms, almost illuminating the surroundings and that that gives hope….