A red deer stag faces the viewer head-on, its wide-spreading antlers woven with autumn wildflowers, dried leaves and trailing foliage like a crown. Rust-orange dahlias, dusty lavender blossoms and a single blush rose sit among golden leaves. Behind it, a still lake, rolling hills and hazy distant mountains recede under a soft golden sky.

Soft backlight glows along the antlers and fur, as if from early morning or late afternoon. The oil painting is loose and impressionistic, with light impasto in the flowers and leaves and softer, dreamier handling in the mountains and sky.