Pen Y Ghent, Glorious September

You've made this scene look very peaceful Ian.

Strong painting with a foreboding sky. There's probably a lot in your feeling that familiarity with the hill made in hard for you to paint it - I had a similar problem with a cliff, quite a famous one, which dominated the bay near to which I was born and where I lived for the first 30 odd years of my life. It wasn't until I moved away that my attempts to capture it looked anything like the cliff - I think because I was then able to look at it dispassionately and see it as just a geological formation, rather than the old acquaintance I'd grown up with.

A lovely painting Ian.

I think you have done the hill justice Ian, love the strong contrasts in the painting between light and dark really gives distance and a bit of mystery/drama to the hill, a really good painting.