Color Emerges from the Muddy Throat of the Marsh

There's a darkness that can inhabit the pacific northwest woods during rainy winter days - it's broken by spring foliage finding it's way up and out of marshes and wetlands, meadows and more. I exaggerated the color in this piece, mainly from my imagining what some small spring blooms in a marshy woodsy area could become - but the mossy trees, the fallen mossy maple branches reaching into the composition, and the upright but sparsely branched trees living in the somewhat swampy area, are pretty on target with vibrant greens. The border is made up of my desire to have fun with geometric patterns, shapes that sometime outline negative areas in a painting, and sometimes just border a painting in an interesting way.