Towards the East

The road east - reimagined, and full of feeling

This painting began with a real road - the route east towards the coast - but the artist made a quiet, deliberate change. The busy asphalt was replaced with a countryside mud track, winding through open fields beneath a vast East Anglian sky. A big cloud moves overhead, the kind that shifts the light and charges the air with a sense of something about to happen.

That something was a move. This is a study painted in the tension before a new chapter began - the road east not yet taken, reimagined as something slower, quieter, and more honest than a motorway. It is a painting about anticipation, about the feeling of standing at the edge of a decision, and about the particular beauty of the East Anglian countryside that was waiting at the end of the journey.

About this original artwork

• One of a kind - this is a unique, original painting. Once it's gone, it's gone
• Inspired by the road towards the East Anglian coast - the busy road reimagined as a quiet countryside mud track with fields and a vast, moving sky
• A study painted in the tension before the artist's move to the East Coast
• Medium: Oil on canvas board
• Size: 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm)
• Signed by the artist
• Supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity
• Frames shown in lifestyle images are for display purposes only

Collecting original art

Owning an original painting means owning something no one else in the world has. This piece was painted entirely by hand by Marta Stolarska - every field and cloud observed, every nuance of that charged, anticipatory light considered with care. It arrives ready to frame and treasure.

A mud road, open fields, a moving cloud - and the feeling of heading somewhere that is about to become home.