Watching the Sunrise – Romantic Symbolist Landscape

A quiet figure sits on a rock, watching the first light rise over still water. This romantic landscape glows with warmth and calm, inviting the viewer into a moment of reflection. Painted in tempera, oil, and acrylic with subtle sfumato and fine layers, the work captures both inner stillness and the slow unfolding of a new day. The scene is bathed in golden-pink light, soft and almost weightless, while flowering branches frame the space like a memory. A poetic meditation on solitude, time, and presence.