Children race down a snow-covered hillside on wooden sleds while a quiet village glows below, its white clapboard houses, church steeple and red barns warmed by candlelit windows and strings of lights.

A hazy golden dusk settles over distant hills as soft snowflakes drift through the air. Thick palette-knife strokes shape the drifts in the foreground, while the village and treeline dissolve into gentle, muted brushwork.