The Black Hole, or path down to the cliff

Lots of movement in this piece and lovely foreground detail. The 'Black Hole' certainly creates a focal point, and I'm sure in the wrong light and the wrong time of day could be a little intimidating, but in this I'd like to be walking down it.

What a perfect comment by Lesley. I agree with her about the intimidating but I would be curious how it goes further. What is in the hole or how does the path continuous. I like the mystery of it!!!

Beautifully painted as always; wonderful wild flowers. I'm just a little unsure about the actual scale of the path. Is it human height or smaller because the grasses seem to grow right over the top of it.

Lovely moving textures Robert. Great colours again. Looks very sinister down that path!!

Thanks all. Diana, the problem with it, which you've spotted (drat!) is that there's nothing to indicate scale - so the path entrance could be fox size or human size, other than the scale of the plants and hedgerow to the right, there's little to suggest which. The overhang is actually wind-blown (and dwarfed) hawthorn, and the ground slopes sharply downwards so there's actually a fair amount of head-room. But you can't (at this time of year) see that from a few feet away. I am loathe to introduce a figure ...although it would probably be the answer.... Not varnished, so I still have time to think!

My eye is certainly drawn down that path. What awaits at the end I wonder? Is that the gleam from an eye I can see at the end? Another lovely painting.

What about a dog or a rabbit; even a bird woudl give scale and not intrude too much like a human would.

Watch this space... There is in fact a rat (as there is in most of my paintings) cunningly concealed on the path; but I take the point that something more obvious is required. I shall re-post this one; working on a couple of others at the moment.