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Type: Original
Medium: Oil
Genre: Landscape
Artwork Size: 30cm (w) x 30cm (h)
Uploaded on: Sunday 21st Sep, 2025
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Oil on canvas, 30 x 30
When I was painting this work, I had in mind the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. It runs:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I hope that this work evokes in you a similar feeling of adventure and enchantment.
Yours,
Frances
Frances Forbes-Carbines
