Warm Afternoon #201

Warm Afternoon #201 is an original oil painting by local artist Retta Dotterer, capturing the warmth, color, and tangled beauty of a Lowcountry landscape beneath the trees. Live oaks stretch across the composition in loose, expressive lines, their branches weaving through a scene washed in soft pinks, lavender, warm gold, green, and unexpected flashes of blue.

Retta’s confident brushwork gives the painting a wonderful sense of movement. Rather than carefully defining every branch and leaf, she builds the landscape through color, shape, and energetic marks, allowing the familiar forms of the Lowcountry to emerge gradually. A rosy sky filters through the canopy while deeper magentas and violets trace the trunks and branches, giving the entire scene the feeling of late-afternoon light shifting across the landscape.

There is something both familiar and wonderfully unexpected about Warm Afternoon #201. It is unmistakably Southern, but Retta’s palette and painterly approach give the landscape a fresh, contemporary energy. Framed and ready to hang, this one-of-a-kind original is a beautiful choice for anyone drawn to expressive landscape painting, Lowcountry live oaks, and art that captures a sense of place without spelling out every detail.

16"W x 12"H