Dancing in the Nude 60 x 90 Oil Acrylic 2025 - Audio Description Box Below

Audio Description for Blind person's usage - by Sophie Coppenhall, Dancing in the Nude, Though the subject of this painting is a natural landscape, the canvas is in a portrait orientation, elongating the scene of land, sky and trees depicted. In the foreground, sitting against a grassy hillside underneath a clear, light, azure blue sky, two great, tall trees stretch up through the centre of the canvas, almost from bottom to top. Their uppermost branches extend beyond the top of the scene out of view with a smattering of gentle, stippled green leaves cascading back down from the top edge of the canvas.The two trees at the centre are almost mirror images of each other; the tree to the left is palest grey-white, with a long, smooth, slender trunk which splits into two thinner, bending branches nearest the top.To the right, a dark charcoal and carbon black tree with a more textured trunk, gentle rippling lines defining its shape which stands out so strongly against the spring-like greens and blues of the ground and sky behind. At the top of the trunk, the branches split into two, and then into further forked branches leading out of the canvas, much like its twinned white counterpart.The black tree also has a bold additional limb at its centre which grows outwards to the left and wraps around the white tree’s trunk, not touching it but circling it like a hoop. The black limb is almost anthropomorphic, with a long, slender branch splitting into tiny branches and leaves at its tip giving the end of the branch a hand-like appearance. The black tree looks as if it is embracing the white tree’s trunk with its long limb.Either side of the white and black trees in the middleground is a series of slender, pale-beige, vertical trunks with mottled bark painted in powdery reddish-browns. Their tops are also lightly stippled with moss-green leaves in small clusters, transparent enough to see the beige trunks inside. All the trees in the composition are perched on top of a grassy mound which slopes from left to right of the bottom third of the canvas. The mound is painted in jagged, textured, squared brushstrokes with different shades of deep emerald and bottle greens, bright lime green, a soft, pale avocado green and flecks of yellow, all competing in short horizontal and vertical strokes piled on top of each other to give the colour dimension and jostling movement. Behind this mound in the background is a big expanse of pale grassy hillside, which occupies the middle third of the canvas. This is painted in flowing strokes of avocado and lime greens, and pale canary yellow, giving it a softer, more pastel-like appearance. Above this hillside is the clear, light azure sky which leads out of the top of the canvas, giving the painting a sense of brightness, freshness, and scale under an expansive and crystalline sky.