Dyrnæs enge 1914

Poul S. Christiansen made Dyrnæs enge with watercolour and pencil, and there's a real freshness to it, a sense of being out in the landscape, trying to capture a fleeting impression. I love how Christiansen uses a limited palette, mostly muted yellows and browns, with touches of red and grey. It gives the whole piece a kind of hazy, dreamlike quality, like a memory fading at the edges. Look at the way he's rendered the clouds – just a few strokes of pencil, smudged and blended to suggest form and depth. It's so economical, so confident. Then there's that band of red, snaking across the middle ground. It’s a simple gesture but it really anchors the composition, adding a subtle tension to the piece. It reminds me a bit of something like a Bonnard or maybe even a Whistler, in the way it captures a specific mood. It’s a reminder that art isn't about perfect representation, but about feeling and seeing.