May

I wouldn't have recognized that as oil seed rape, but then, it's such an alien colour in a British landscape and I just don't think it's possible to convey it sensitively if going for the full strength of colour (translation : I tried, and failed). Your painting is, I think, much better for not having tried to do so. What, though constitutes the path/stream in the foreground? Is it water ... I just wonder if the rape would grow in a waterlogged landscape ... but I'm not sure it really matters. I like the incidental touches, especially the indication of a fence on the left of centre, which cuts into the pale yellow and suggests a crop beyond. It's these touches which add interest.

Stunning? I love the way you painted the trees and the colours are beautiful.

Robert, thank you for you comment. The colour of the oil seed rape has not been reproduced as accurately as I would like in the on-line photograph, it is more of an acid yellow in the original painting. The transition from photograph to web page has changed it slightly. I do try in all of my paintings to create some kind of lead-in. This leads the viewers eye into the picture, hopefully coming to rest at the focal point. In this painting, as in many others, I have simply emphasized the puddles left by the tractors tracks to create my lead-in.