Like the various underwater scenes, snow can be many colours other than white. The colour of snow depends on the colour of the sky, the ambient light. Pastel pinks and blues are common, but as you’ll see below, snow can also be quite brightly coloured and the viewer still reads it as snow.
‘Windover in Winter, Alciston, East Sussex, January’, Frank Wootton, oil on canvas, 1945Albert Benois (Russian, 1852-1936) Winter Landscape with Birches, 1913Charles Warren Eaton (American, 1857 – 1937) Early morning, winterEyvind EarleStanisław Witkiewicz (Polish, 1851-1915) Forest c.1892Andrey Andreevich Mylnikov. February, 1978Konstantin Korovin. Last Snow, 1870Winter at Montfoucault 1875 – Camille PissarroIsaac Levitan. Early Spring, 1898, oil on canvasGeorg von Rosen (Swedish painter, 1843-1923) Snow Laden Pines, 1911Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 –1931, Finnish) Winter Landscape 1908Pekka Halonen (Finnish, 1865-1933) Winter Landscape, 1908Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906) was a Swedish-Finnish painterThorvald Niss (Danish, 1842-1905) Winter landscape of forests near HillerødSemyon Platonov (Russian, 1860-1925) Winter LandscapeDriving Snow (c1907) an archetypal work by Joseph Farquharson, Edinburgh-born painterHarry Epworth Allen, Derbyshire FellsJoseph Farquharson (Scottish, 1846-1935) Winter Landscape With Fox Hunting BirdsSt James’s Park, London’, Thomas Frederick Mason Sheard, oil on canvas, before 1921Władysław Jarocki (Podhajczyki, 1875 – Kraków, 1965) Landscape of the Podhale regionAnders Andersen-Lundby (1841-1923, Denmark) Deer In A Snow-Covered LandscapeAnders Andersen-Lundby (1841–1923) Forest in winter, 1882Dirk Smorenberg (Dutch, 1883-1960) The Loosdrechtse Plassen In winter‘Rime’, Gustaf Fjaestad, oil on canvas, 1920Helmer Osslund (1866-1938) The big sea fall in winter windKawase Hasui (1883-1957) Senzoku Pond In The SnowErnst Einer, The Allegory of the Faith, 1670Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov (Russian-German, 1876-1945) Winter View Through The Window, post-ImpressionistIvan Fedorovich Choultse (Russian, 1874-1939) Winter Landscape In Sunlight 1903Edith Blackwell Holden (1871-1920 UK). The Seasons (winter)Ernst Eitner (Germany, 1867 – 1955) Snow Covered‘Winter Landscape’ Date unknown Stanley Roy Badwin (1906 – 1989) British painter and etcher also Ladybird book illustrationsHans Andersen Brendekilde (Danish, 1857 – 1942)Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912 – 1993, Russian Soviet landscape painter) Russian WinterFrank Johnston (1888-1949) ReflectionsFrozen Lake’, Gustaf Fjaestad, oil on canvas, 1929Snow in the Garden by Shirley HughesJohann Young Blood. Germany (1860 – 1912) Evening mood over a village street‘Glowed with Tints of Evening’s Fire’, Joseph Farquason, oil on canvas, 1911Louis Apol (1850-1936, Dutch) A Snowy Landscape At SunsetCasper David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) Winter Landscape 1811Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859 – 1918) A winter evening, 1895Art Riley (1911-1998) 1950s ‘Christmas in Bugville’ for Ideals magazineIvan Choultsé (Russian,1877-1932) Snowy Sunset (detail), 1923‘When the West with Evening Glows’, Joseph Farquharso, oil on canvas, 1901Vilhelm Kyhn (Danish, 1819–1903) Winter LandscapeVilhelm Kyhn (Danish, 1819–1903) A Winter’s Evening by a Danish Fiord, 1875Winter Scene by Stepan Feodorovich Kolesnikov (1879-1955)Tree in Winter’, William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1916Friedrich Beck (Austrian, 1873 – 1921) Winter Landscape, 1909. Pastel chalk on paperFelicitas Kuhn, Christmastime in Pixieland – back cover, Story by Dennis Burley, 19701978 picture-book presentation of Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ illustrations by Susan JeffersWinter by Theodor KittelsenWinter woods illustration by Elmer Jacobs from the book Parade of Stories, 1965Winter Landscape Sophus Jacobsen (1833-1912) was a Norwegian painterCharles Tunnicliffe illustration for What to Look for in Winter’ 1959 Ladybird booksToshi Yoshida (Japan, 1911-1995)Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 – 1890) The parsonage garden in the snow, January 1885, Nuenen‘Winter Landscape with Rising Moon’ Adolf Kaufmann, oil on canvas, before 1916Charles Tunnicliffe illustration for What to Look for in Winter’ 1959 Ladybird books‘Sunset, Winter’, Louis Remy Mignot, oil on canvas, 1862George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) Cleveland Ohio, Wastelands (Winter) 1940The American Legion Weekly Magazine January 12, 1923
SNOW AT NIGHT
Is snow still white at night? Here’s your answer…
‘Evening Atmosphere’, Waldemar Fink, oil on canvas, 1912‘Women on a Snowy Hillside’, Stepan Feodorovich Kolesnikov (1879-1955), gouache‘Winter Scene in Moonlight’ Henry Farrer, watercolour, 1869‘Winter Moonrise, Yorkshire’, Algernon Cecil Newton, oil on canvas, 1945‘Winter in Eerbeek’, Jan Mankes, oil on canvas, 1917‘Winter Bonsai’, Eyvind Earle, seriograph, 1982Joan Walsh Anglund ‘Country Cat’ Tsuchiya Koitsu Snow at Maruyama,Kyoto 1936 Valerius De Saedeleer (Belgian, 1867 – 1941)Valerius De Saedeleer (Belgian, 1867 – 1941)William Samuel Schwartz (Belarusian, 1896-1977) Winter Evening 1924Paul Gauguin Garden under Snow,1879Walter King Stone (1875-1949)Art Riley (1911-1998) 1940s Christmas card illustration 2
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
