Dry stone walls are regional features in many rural parts of England and when the field sizes are small, they make fascinating patterns in the landscape. Chelmorton is well-known in the Peak District for having an abundance of close-packed walls. Those in my painting aren’t the tightest or most dramatic patterns there, but the location was convenient. Just across the road, at Brierlow Bar, there’s a very big, very good, bookshop, with a superb cafe and a small art gallery round the back. I was delivering paintings to the gallery for a month’s guest artist exhibition, so I took my dog, walked into the fields, did this outdoor painting, had coffee and cake at the cafe, walked back and did another outdoor painting of a barn, then had a late lunch at the cafe. A perfect day.