Northern Lights Landscape Painting Van Gogh Its blues and crisp whites

Its blues and crisp whites work hand in hand with charcoal

polished concrete and brushed brass fittings without competing with them

lending the whole an air of dreamlike Victorian invention

The image holds the still

Northern Lights Landscape Painting Van Gogh Its blues and crisp whitesVivid curtains of magenta, violet and electric green rain down from a deep starlit sky in this sweeping panoramic vista. The aurora falls in vertical streaks behind a horizon of low snow dusted mountains, while tall pines stand sentinel on either edge of the frame. A vast snowfield rolls across the foreground, tinged lilac and blue by the coloured glow overhead. The wide format and saturated hues give the scene a cinematic grandeur, the heavens ablaze