A Garden Seen from the Artist's Dwelling. Autumn 1936

Niels Larsen Stevns made 'A Garden Seen from the Artist's Dwelling. Autumn' with oil on canvas. The way the paint is applied, those choppy, deliberate strokes, tells you that painting, for Stevns, wasn't about capturing a perfect image, but about the act of seeing and making. Check out how the light hits those trees! There's this incredible thickness to the paint, especially in the foreground, with colours that seem to vibrate. See how the paint is built up with individual strokes rather than trying to blend them together, creating a lively and almost tactile surface. It’s like he’s inviting us to touch, to feel the weight and texture of each mark. It reminds me a little of Cezanne, who was also interested in how we perceive depth and space. But where Cezanne could be quite analytical, there's a warmth and an almost naive quality to Stevns' work, a feeling of joy in the simple act of looking at the world. Art isn’t about answers, it's about asking questions.