Dark pine branches and foliage close in along the left, right and top edges, forming a natural window onto a quiet coastal sunset. Above a calm, glimmering sea, golden crepuscular sunbeams break through billowing pink and gold clouds that fill the deep blue sky, while a hazy headland rests on the distant horizon.

The surface is built from thick palette-knife impasto in the spirit of early 20th-century plein-air impressionism. Wildflowers and low green shrubs line a rocky foreground edge, and warm golden-hour light reflects across the water in shimmering white-gold strokes.