Oil painting Evening trees Oleksiy Ivanyuk

№AAA5613

The Oil painting Canvas titled “Evening trees” presents a dazzling interplay of color, form, and atmosphere, capturing the transformative beauty of twilight as it spreads across the landscape. With bold, expressive brushstrokes and a palette alive with fiery reds, luminous yellows, deep blues, and vibrant greens, the artist brings to life a vision that is both rooted in nature and elevated by imagination. The composition does not merely depict a grove of trees at dusk—it conveys the energy of evening itself, that fleeting moment when daylight softens into shadow, and the world is wrapped in the glowing embrace of twilight. The central figures of the painting are the tall, striking trees, standing upright as though guardians of the landscape. They are painted with thick, vertical strokes of scarlet, crimson, and ochre, their trunks and foliage merging into flame-like shapes that seem to dance in the fading light. These fiery tones contrast dramatically with the deep indigo and ultramarine blues of the sky behind them, creating a sense of movement and vitality that suggests the trees themselves are alive with evening fire. The swirling touches of pink and turquoise drifting across the sky evoke clouds tinted by the last rays of the setting sun, lending the scene an atmosphere of enchantment. Beneath the trees, the land is alive with color. Patches of emerald green intermingle with ochre, gold, and earthy orange, forming a textured ground that radiates warmth and energy. The brushwork here is particularly vigorous, applied with a palette knife that creates thick, tactile layers, so that the earth seems to pulse with life. Amid these layers, glowing yellow tones capture the remnants of sunlight spilling across the field, illuminating it in stark contrast to the darkening blue above. The vivid yellows, almost electric in intensity, become the heart of the canvas, making the scene glow from within and transforming it into something both natural and dreamlike. The spatial arrangement of the painting invites the viewer’s eye to move through the grove of trees and into the glowing field beyond. The verticality of the trunks pulls the gaze upward, while the horizontal swathes of luminous gold push the vision deeper into the canvas. There is a sense of balance between grounded solidity and transcendent lightness, as though the landscape were caught in a moment of transition between day and night, reality and dream.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Evening trees"
* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk
* SIZE: 15x20 cm/5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: Born March 13, 1954, in the city of Piryatin, Poltava region. He graduated from the Art College named after N. Samokish (1887). Teachers in the specialty: V. Grigoriev, M. Morgun, L. Gracer. Painter. The main genres are landscape, still life. The paintings are distinguished by emotional openness, warmth, affirm the harmony of life. Dominants of creativity are the deep roots of national traditions, Ukrainian cultural heritage. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2008). He taught fine art at the Pyryatinsky school - gymnasium of aesthetic education (1988-2008). At creative work. Participated in exhibitions: national and international (since 1978). Personal exhibitions - in Kiev (2003, 2007-2009), Lubny (Poltava region, California (USA; 2006), Poltava (2007, 2010), Priluki (Chernihiv region, 2008), Warsaw (2009). Main works: “Flowers field ”(2007),“ Still life with a daffodil ”(2004),“ Indian summer ”(2007),“ Birch ”,“ Spiral panychi ”,“ Kalina red ”(2004),“ Field of the sun ”,“ Apple blossom ”, “Evening Breath” (2005), “Silence”, “Summer” (2006), “Sunflowers” (2007), “Plowed Field”, “Such is Life ...”, “In the Garden” (2009), “It's Cold” (2010). Individual paintings are stored in the National Museum of Art, National U. T. Shevchenko, Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kiev, Poltava Museum of Local Lore, lived and worked in the city of Poltava.