untitled palm leaves abstracted original painting by Chris Shopland acrylic on 8 x 8 inch deep edge canvas
Art Description
“Palm Study – Abstract Acrylic”
This abstract work bursts with the energy of a tropical landscape, translated through textures and shapes, and a playful sense of motion. Deep greens, electric blues, and bight yellow background with red weave together like overlapping fronds, creating a dense, expressive tangle of palm-like shapes.
Rather than depicting a literal scene, the painting captures the rhythm and chaos of nature — the sway of leaves, the heat, the layered growth of a wild place. The marks feel instinctive, almost improvisational, as though each stroke responds to the one before it in a conversation of colour and movement.
The sandy ground of the canvas peeks through in places, giving warmth and grounding to the composition, while the surrounding forms push upward and outward with an organic, untamed life. It’s a celebration of shape and gesture: a jungle imagined through emotion rather than observation.
All of that to say I enjoyed putting shapes on canvas inspired by the dense foreground and background of a jungle scene.
untitled palm leaves abstracted original painting by Chris Shopland acrylic on 8 x 8 inch deep edge canvas
Art Description
“Palm Study – Abstract Acrylic”
This abstract work bursts with the energy of a tropical landscape, translated through textures and shapes, and a playful sense of motion. Deep greens, electric blues, and bight yellow background with red weave together like overlapping fronds, creating a dense, expressive tangle of palm-like shapes.
Rather than depicting a literal scene, the painting captures the rhythm and chaos of nature — the sway of leaves, the heat, the layered growth of a wild place. The marks feel instinctive, almost improvisational, as though each stroke responds to the one before it in a conversation of colour and movement.
The sandy ground of the canvas peeks through in places, giving warmth and grounding to the composition, while the surrounding forms push upward and outward with an organic, untamed life. It’s a celebration of shape and gesture: a jungle imagined through emotion rather than observation.
All of that to say I enjoyed putting shapes on canvas inspired by the dense foreground and background of a jungle scene.
