THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP print

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Frost’s poem is one of the most quietly devastating in the English language — a traveller pausing at the edge of the winter wood, held by its mystery and darkness, longing to stay, knowing they must go. The tension between these two pulls is the whole poem, and the whole painting.

What makes this image distinctive is its perspective: the viewer is placed within the woods, looking out at the traveller and horse passing by. We are the darkness they are drawn to. We are what they cannot stay for. It is a painting about longing, about the road home, and about everything that waits in the beautiful, unknowable dark.

HORSE: THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP — Fine Art Print
Inspired by Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Reproduction from the original painting by Catherine Hyde

Museum-quality archival print with light-fast pigmented inks
Signed, titled, and numbered beneath the image — Limited Edition
Unmounted, presented flat with a backing board and protective cover

Available sizes:
A3 — £80
A2 — £150