Circle Tree

Edward Evans

Acrylic painting on canvas. 

"Circle Tree" was inspired by a modest sized, almost perfectly round tree growing in an unlikely place: a too small concrete planter box surrounded by a concrete sidewalk in a bank parking lot with a drive-through teller.  I smiled every time I walked past this tree.  Its bare branches were filled with many small round red decorative apples/berries.   It looked so out of place and so different than its surroundings that it was almost comical.  Even after moving away from the prairie of Southwest Minnesota, I still remember this special tree.  I had to make a painting of it.  The circle-art tree provides joy.