Autumn , Bee Hill

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Like this very much. A marvellous suggestion of air, wind, movement. Slightly finer touches in the immediate foreground would have appealed, but that was a matter of artistic choice.

I love these two "grassy" paintings - feel as if I were sitting there too in the warm sun... hearing and smelling the countryside! Wonderful. What are their sizes please?

Roughly A3 size, Avril.. Thank you for your nice comments!

"As the growing season winds on towards its close the countryside assumes a very restful phase, as though gathering itself for the winter ahead." This is what I wrote about this painting for an exhibition catalogue a couple of years ago. I was showing a body of work inspired by Beal, a tiny hamlet on the road to Lindisfarne, Northumberland. An experiment in mixed media, I was trying a very light application of oil pastel on heavily textured watercolour paper, as I had found I liked the beautiful soft and delicate effects which could be obtained with coloured crayon. Finding the result heavier than I wanted, however, I worked into my image with white gouache, obtaining quite a pleasing result.