Moss covered Ham stone wall Somerset

Super painting David 👍

Quite superb!!

Excellent David, am very impressed with your whole portfolio

Wonderful textures and a good sense of design David.

This is really good David, and a really difficult subject to capture

Love this. I can almost smell the moss and no David it's not selfish wanting to leave something behind. You are expressing yourself in a creative way. I think most who came to painting late in life feel the same.

A wonderful painting.

Lovely painting David with lots of areas of interest.

Excellent painting David. Lovely areas of depth in the undergrowth making the greens sparkle.

This is lovely David. I'm assuming this is an old wall, maybe a boundary or part of a cottage wall reclaimed by nature.

Hi Carol, this is part of ham stone boundary wall containing an Iron Age fort, known locally as Ham Hill located in Stoke Sub-Hamden near Yeovil, Somerset. Despite its defences, the hillfort fell to the Roman invaders. In 1882 a horde of over 2000 Roman coins was found at Ham Hill and archaeological digs in the early 1900s discovered more coins, brooches, roof tiles and pottery. There is evidence of a Roman fort or military base near the present-day war memorial and also a 19-roomed villa in the field known as The Warren. Moving on to the Middle Ages, there was a village called Witcombe Valley situated just outside the area of the hillfort, which was later deserted in the 16th century. The villagers farmed on the slopes of the hill and also quarried for the honey-gold hamstone from which the local residents built their houses. This warm-coloured stone gives the local villages their unique and beautiful character, with homes from the 10th century onwards constructed from the stone. The Victorians went on to further develop the quarries, digging deeper into the hillside as quarrying techniques advanced and leaving behind the unusual ‘pockmarked’ landscape that we see today – perfect for games of hide and seek!

Hi David Thank you for your interesting and wonderful response to my post. I will be searching more into this. Thanks, again.

Another good 'un.

Great, David. Good composition.