Ocean in a Birch Forest: An Oil Painting

An ethereal oil painting where an ocean scene unfolds inside a birch forest. In the foreground, slender white birch trunks with black markings rise from a mossy forest floor. Beyond them, a restless ocean spills across a narrow shoreline, turquoise and ultramarine waves curling onto wet sand, foam tracing jagged edges. A distant horizon glows with a pale sunrise, casting warm pink-gold light through the branches. Thick impasto brushwork adds texture to waves, tree bark, and the mossy ground, using a rich palette of blues, greens, ivories, and ochres. The scene blends seascape and woodland in a Romantic, surreal mood, with visible brushstrokes and a dreamlike atmosphere that invites contemplation of nature’s paradox.