Teunis Ploeg

Two trees. Two worlds. Two ways of seeing.

These paintings were inspired by The Two Trees, a poem by W. B. Yeats that explores the relationship between the inner self and the world as we perceive it.

In this painting , a solitary figure stands before a twisted, damaged tree in a barren landscape beneath a darkening sky. The tree seems to bear the scars of a wounded world.

For me, the contrast is not simply between life and destruction. It is also about the way we relate to nature, to the world around us, and to ourselves.

The two paintings are conceived as a diptych: separate works that find their fuller meaning in relation to one another.