Volcano Canvas Frame:Dark ash lending the marsh a hushed

lending the marsh a hushed

This warm landscape looks out over a sweeping savanna valley bathed in the honeyed light of late afternoon

This is autumn at its most generous and golden

Halfway down

his line cast into the gently rippling river while a second empty skiff drifts quietly alongside

Volcano Canvas Frame:Dark ash lending the marsh a hushedAn erupting cone dominates this tall composition, throwing a fountain of molten orange from its summit while incandescent rivers pour down every flank. Above it a vast column of ash boils upward in blue grey coils, swallowing the storm clouds and leaving only a thin band of pale gold along the far horizon. At the base, black forested ridges and a plume of white steam mark the scale of the mountain, dwarfed by the fire and smoke overhead. Small trees