Landslip painting I - Broken Terrace, Holding On

A very nice painting, Robert. I like the way you did the trees and the grass. There's a real vitality in this painting.

I agree with Kirstie and Seok: a beautiful painting with rich colours, especially the sky. It really tells a story: the house still surviving and the rose bush blooming against all odds! I like those old weathered houses (to paint, not to live in!) I am asking the same question as Kirstie does: are you never worried...? Can you swim?

I haven't swum for donkey's years, so don't know if I still could; in any event, if the whole house goes buckety-buckety over the cliff, I shall doubtless be minced into mush by the falling masonry.... No, I'm not particularly worried, which isn't to say I'm not worried at all ... but you see, a) it's a huge house, only half of which is right up against the landslip; b) it's built in sections (they say!) so if one bit falls it won't (necessarily) take the rest with it, and c) we have red squirrels, badgers, foxes, bats, and a blessed absence of too many neighbours.... (And yet STILL the Jehovah's Witnesses manage to find us...) But I do remain in touch with the local housing department, just in case a move becomes necessary at short notice....

I do like the way you present undergrowth, just enough to give it body and shape, while remaining uncluttered. Quite a feat, as I'm finding out as I make the transition from watercolour to chromacolour. More of that soon..........well ok maybe a week or two!

I like the way you paint the undergrowth and the way nature seems to be taking over the house, a race between the sea and the undergrowth, I hope as you say that the house was built in two parts and that you are living in the part that is less likely to fall victim to landslip.

I found this piece through the invitation to view /Exhibition... The sky is great (Ominous or auspicious). The tree has character and you have beautiful view...

WOW the colours are gorgeous. What a wonderful land. Magical.