Lot 79: T McArdle, Woodland Interior, Oil on Canvas . Frame 45x40cm, picture 34x29cm

An oil on canvas painting by T McArdle depicting a sun-dappled woodland interior. The work is executed in an impressionistic style with heavy impasto brushwork, utilising a palette of ochre, yellow, and green tones to suggest light filtering through tree trunks, contrasted with cool blue and grey tones in the foreground shadows. A signature is painted in dark blue-black script in the lower right corner reading T McARDLE, consisting of an uppercase T, an uppercase M with a superscript lowercase c, and uppercase letters ARDLE. The painting is housed in a multi-order frame featuring a foliate-moulded gilt inner border, a dark-stained wooden reveal, and a wide outer gilt moulding with a mahogany-toned exterior edge.