In this work, André Evard, the Swiss artist, presents a landscape in mild, at times almost pastel-like, yet naturalistic tones. As in many of his works, the artist creates a sense of depth here, starting with the foreground, where a yellow path draws the viewer into the painting, but quickly disappears into a green meadow.
The green tones are variously nuanced, ranging from a very light shade to an almost black green, which was the only one applied thickly with an impasto brushstroke. The area extends into the background, where it becomes a green mountain range, and over which the painter, with few brushstrokes and a delicate touch, allows birds to emerge and fly.
In this focus, the oil painting is on five symmetrically arranged trees in the center of the image, whose thick, pink blossoms resemble peonies in their form. Two of them form the vanguard and are in perspective also larger, with their blossoms depicted more intensely and with greater detail.
The thin, black trunks, with their jagged form, stand out clearly against the predominantly light background, which shows us white clouds on a pleasant spring day. In the upper center of the image, the blue of the sky is visible in a small, abstract form.
The painting is compositionally symmetrical in its entirety. André Evard’s work could be divided into two almost identical halves. With oil on canvas and his very own multi-layered language of forms and colors, the artist awakens spring and life, truly showing us the blossoming of nature.