Wild Sky | 30" x 30" 24x20 and Cold Beeswax on Canvas)

and Cold Beeswax on Canvas)

Leier transforms the natural world into richly decorative tableaux

and folk-inspired plant motifs

rendered in blue-grey and turquoise aquatint tones

Wild Sky | 30" x 30" 24x20 and Cold Beeswax on Canvas)About the Artwork Wild Sky is a 30" 30" oil on canvas painting by Rod Charlesworth (b. 1955), depicting a group of evergreen trees standing before a broad lake beneath a highly textured sky. The upper portion of the canvas is filled with irregular blocks of yellow, orange, blue, and purple, forming a highly textured sky above the water. The lake below is rendered in horizontal bands of blue, green, and pale yellow, with low rock formations and a