Deep Creek

We mountain bike in the Smokey Mountain National Park along this path to Deep Creek, where we sit on a log crossing the creek and eat lunch. I am enchanted by the color and movement of the water and we feel surrounded by the solitude and beauty of the woods here. I interpreted the scene with a misty distance and focused on the strength of the rock in the flow of the charging water. The painting has a primordial feel, which I get when I am in the wilderness here.