In the forest

‘‘’In the Forest” is another work of this period, being dated 1897. Few painters of our generation, unless it be P. Wilson Steer, have produced such an exquisite piece of woodland painting. Here three gaily dressed ladies wandering through a thick wood have come upon an opening in the trees, where the sun, which is low, shoots shafts of light across the green turf and round the group. One of the ladies has seated herself on the ground and holds an animated conversation with her companions who are standing. Thus their dresses of dark blue, scarlet rose red, and ashen grey have a beautiful setting and harmonise with the greens and golds of the foliage and grass partly wrapped in shadow and partly steeped in light.’ (F. Gibson, op. cit., p. 46).