This is a Artwork in the Original Painted Colors of Robert Mihaly?s oil painting Little Bradley Falls, 2025

In this edition, Mihaly presents the waterfall in all its expressive, luminous, highly saturated glory?an interpretation that channels the boldness of the Fauves, the emotion-soaked brushwork of Van Gogh, and the radiant naturalism of Monet. Little Bradley Falls becomes a vibrant orchestration of exaggerated color, where reality is not merely observed but exalted, intensified, and transformed into a feast for the senses.

The waterfall bursts forward in radiant cascades of turquoise, cobalt, electric teal, and near-white brilliance. Light fractures across each tier, catching in strokes of lemon gold, radiant aqua, and shimmering ultramarine. Mist rises in soft veils of lavender and pale green, drifting upward like breath made visible. The stone ledges beneath the falls shift through a spectrum of saturated color?violet shadows, rose-gold highlights, warm orange undertones?each hue chosen for emotional impact rather than literal accuracy.

The surrounding forest vibrates with expressive color. Rhododendron leaves glow in emerald and viridian, while deeper shadows melt into indigo and wine-dark purples. Dappled sunlight flickers through the canopy in strokes of cadmium yellow and chartreuse. Even the quiet spaces?the crevices in the rock, the pockets of moss, the far reaches of the gorge?seem to hum with chromatic energy.

In the Original Painted Colors, Little Bradley Falls becomes more than a landscape; it becomes an experience. The painting radiates vitality, movement, and emotional resonance. It evokes the exhilaration of encountering a waterfall in perfect light?when colors feel impossibly vivid, when air seems to shimmer, when nature feels larger and more alive than one?s own breath.

This edition celebrates the poetic truth of the place rather than the literal one: the energy, the awe, the movement, the memory. It is Little Bradley Falls at its most exuberant and luminous.