June Day

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Hm. Can't be doing with the script/html issues in your intro - you've imported this from elsewhere, I assume? - but it[s a fabulous painting, which is the important thing.

Beautiful, just love this one but all of them are wonderful.

I consider that an essential part of the landscape painter's task is to capture a "sense of place". With this large canvas I aimed to convey a particular mood to the show, remembering my feelings at the time and endeavouring to invite my future audience to join me as I sit sketching on a summer's morning , roadside grasses waving above my head. I often seem to choose a low viewpoint, as I find this adds interest and drama, perhaps due to unusual shapes and perspectives. Although I had thought this was the largest painting from my Beal exhibition, I realise now that this is the preparatory gouache study, which I quite like. Severe time constraints (I painted the final canvas, the central feature of my show, in 24 hours flat!) prevented me from usng oils, my preferred medium, but I had the satisfaction of carrying out the final painting on a big canvas, as well as permission to display it on an easel at the far end of the barn restaurant where I was exhibiting. Because of its size and scale, the painting really needed the full length of the barn to be viewed adequately, but this wall was not fitted with hanging equipment!