This tree needs very little around it.
Standing alone on the crest of a gently rising hill, its broad canopy spreads across an almost white sky. Removing colour and most background detail concentrates attention on the architecture of the tree itself—the weight of its trunk, the branching structure and the extraordinary reach of its canopy.
Unlike Lone Tree #0051, where a tiny tree is overwhelmed by sky, #1461 gives the tree the frame. Isolation remains important, but here it reads less as vulnerability than presence.
The tree does not occupy the landscape. For a moment, it is the landscape.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Australian Landscape Fine Art Photography
Title: Lone Tree
Artwork: #1461
Location: Near Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Single mature tree on a hillside
Medium: Black and white fine art photography
Process: Full frame digital photograph
Format: Landscape
Genre: Minimalist landscape / tree study
Themes: Isolation, form, strength, structure, nature, simplicity
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
This tree needs very little around it.
Standing alone on the crest of a gently rising hill, its broad canopy spreads across an almost white sky. Removing colour and most background detail concentrates attention on the architecture of the tree itself—the weight of its trunk, the branching structure and the extraordinary reach of its canopy.
Unlike Lone Tree #0051, where a tiny tree is overwhelmed by sky, #1461 gives the tree the frame. Isolation remains important, but here it reads less as vulnerability than presence.
The tree does not occupy the landscape. For a moment, it is the landscape.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Australian Landscape Fine Art Photography
Title: Lone Tree
Artwork: #1461
Location: Near Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Single mature tree on a hillside
Medium: Black and white fine art photography
Process: Full frame digital photograph
Format: Landscape
Genre: Minimalist landscape / tree study
Themes: Isolation, form, strength, structure, nature, simplicity
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
