Silver Trees 1907

Édouard Vuillard made this landscape, Silver Trees, with pastel on paper. Just imagine him there with his pastels, building up this scene stroke by stroke, almost like knitting. Vuillard must have been such an interesting character! The way he layers colours, it’s like he's not just showing us a place, but also a feeling, a memory, or maybe even a dream of a landscape. There is something so lovely about the way he draws the trees, like a hazy memory. It reminds me a bit of Bonnard’s knack for turning everyday scenes into something magical. Painters, you know, we're always looking at what others do and figuring out how to make it our own. We're all in this big, ongoing conversation across time. So let’s keep those conversations going, keep looking, keep making.