The Autumn Glade
Matthew Hannum - landscape artist
Friday, February 16, 2024
Moonrise over Snowy Pines
Friday, January 19, 2024
Hill Country Winter Sunrise
After several years without measurable snowfall, winter returned to Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region this week, with frigid temperatures and two snowstorms that each dropped several inches of snow. Here, we see the snowy weather from the rolling, forested hills of western Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania as the sun rises on a quiet, freezing day.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"
Friday, December 22, 2023
Exoplanet - Winter Lights
The winter season on Earth is marked by festivals of light to push back the darkness, but night has a different meaning on other worlds. Here we see a young, cold exoplanet covered in winter snow. The night sky is illuminated by an enormous nebula and the blazing light of countless new stars. Dark dust clouds are silhouetted against the glowing gases, and particularly brilliant star clusters cast their light across the frozen wastes. This world is far too young for life to have formed. Perhaps in billions of years - long after the nebula fades and the most massive stars in it die off - a sentient species like us will create their own winter festivals to drive back the darkness.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"
Friday, November 10, 2023
Fall Sycamore Thicket
As autumn color winds down, we go for a walk in the woods while there's still sun remaining. A mix of sycamores, both old and young, tower overhead, their leaves turning to crumpled bronze as they fall from the trees. Low light bathes the mottled bark; winter is when sycamores are at their finest.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"
Friday, October 13, 2023
Maple Lake in Fall
Autumn has finally arrived here in Maryland with falling temperatures and leaves of changing colors. Here, we wander northward, where the chill air has already turned the maple leaves to warm fire that contrasts with the cold waters of a large lake. The low sun stretches across this scene of bright colors in the cold air.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Abstract Autumn in a Pond
We've only begun the autumn season here in central Maryland, with the first trees turning hints of color and the temperatures finally becoming more seasonable. A month from now, colorful and fading leaves will float in our rivers and ponds like confetti tossed from summer's party.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"
Friday, August 4, 2023
Cumulonimbus Sunset
This scene was inspired by a line of violent thunderstorms that swept through the area last weekend. While those storms happened in the late afternoon, this painting imagines them in the glow of the evening sun, cloud tops illuminated while shadows fall under the storm's anvil.
Acrylic painting: 14" x 17"