Rossthwaite autumn A painting by Rob Miller

Tonal composition
Rossthwaite Cumbrian Autumn
Acrylic on canvas
50cmx50cm

Lakeland in autumn is awe personified. I know, I can crow on about Rivington and the beech groves at Tockholes but here you have old gnarled oak and ash crowded together by their own ancient, most venerable choice on a mossed scree slope, roots and branches linked as if they are but one. To walk here in autumn is to be in thrall to natures bounty. The land of the poets you just want to curl up like an owl or a badger and paint and write. The issue  for the painter  in autumn is that if you concentrate more on colour than the overall tonal quality of the work the work becomes more absracted  and can get a confused look the second black and white version shows more control. Is this work abstract or the essence, whatever on a continuum its towards abstraction?