“There it was gone “

Fab from memory Paul. Lovely painting. Love trees and sky. All works well 👌

Nice one, Paul!

Thank you Faye , Bob, and Michael fir your kind comments. I agree Michael, but there is so much so called brown land, that has derelict industrial buildings etc on them and old local council yards that could be used up first.

Very good landscape Paul.

Great concept, Dixie. I'm sure we all have memories of 'lost' places. An excellent painting.

Thank you George and Lew for your kind comments. It’s one of those paintings you do and then think mmm not sure. I was short of time to do this , as I had other things that needed doing , re fitting the floor boards, in the end I rather rushed it off in about an hour and a quarter .

Think this is lovely Paul and looks fresh not rushed. Sad when green spaces go - we all need them. I hope the trees are still there. I love the way you have painted them.

Great memory, Paul. Not sure if progress is always a good thing!!

Thank you Sarah and David for your kind comments, unfortunately the trees were cleared along with a woodland to the left of the painting. About a two mile distance and HS2 is knocking the countryside for six , clearing a lot of old woodlands and a few two hundred year old cottages and farms, well it’s progress so they say .

Good to remember how things were Dixie and it looks a pleasant place to walk. When we bought our current house twelve years ago, we looked over fields and a riding school, now there are 100 houses there!

Thank you Tessa for your comment. It’s quite sad that such beautiful place are built on , I understand the reasons . Our local authority’s have over the last ten or more years built and moved offices three times, leaving the others empty for many years , some could and should be made into flats for single people etc.

Lovely Paul.

Thank you Christine for taking the time to comment.

Nice Landscape Paul.

It's great when a picture can tell a story or translate into a memory. Nice work. Paul.

A lovely painting and record of what was. Such a terrible shame that this kind of sacrilege is happening all over the UK when there are plenty of brownfield sites that can be used.

Sad state of affairs Paul, don’t know what the answer is. Too many people, too few new houses….it goes on and will do, until the population is reduced. Thank goodness that people like yourself, capture these once cherished places in paint as a reminder.

Shaun, Alan , Heather and Fiona, thank you for your very kind comments. I agree Heather there is lots of brownfields that could be used in preference to Greenfield’s and once it’s used then look to how we use other land .

With more people working from home, to a simple soul like me I would have thought there was less need for HS2, but what do I know !! That apart this is lovely painting enhanced by the "dead" tree.

Thanks Richard , from what I understand, it was to benefit business people at both ends , and not any to the people in between. It’s taking so long to deliver that people who wanted it , now do there business in different ways and font have much call for it anymore. It reminds me of the TSR2 abandoned in the sixties, encouraged by American manufacturers sell uk cheaper aircraft. I will get off my bandwagon.

Lovely memory, Paul - I especially like the way you’ve painted the tree on the right.

Thank you Jenny for your kind comment.

A lovely memory and very well painted. It looks like it was a happy place.

It was a very nice place to have a walk and was always a lovely sight. Thank you for your kind comment Carolyn.

Nicely painted Paul. I especially like the trees. Unfortunately I have felt for many years that if someone lives on the edge of a city, town or even large village and has a view over open fields that it is only a matter of time before more houses come to spoil that view.

Thank you David for you comment. I agree with you re house been built , I son in laws parents paid several million for a house in the middle of nowhere, down a single track road . And they now some twenty years later they have five neighbours, would have been more but his son in law and daughter are in the legal profession and sorted his objections out in court .

Simple. Effective. Nice to have happy memories of a place which was so pristine and beautiful.

Thank you Sunil.

Lovely painting, Paul.

Thank you Cesare for taking the time to comment it’s much appreciated.

A lovely painting Paul & what a wonderful way to reminisce. I know we need housing but we also need green spaces to unwind in.