A Place Recollected by Ruth Dolan

Super cohesive painting. Love the lots of small areas of detail which keep the eye moving about the painting and the addition of the darker trees gives a nice emphasis. You are truly are blessed if you have lived in such a lovely place.

Thank you Thea. I didn't exactly live behind the large rock on the right, would have been happy to, though. I was within easy reach of areas like this and have always been a country dweller, apart from a heart-rendingly miserable time working in London, fortunately short!

This is very evocative Ruth of places I've known and loved all my life.

Lovely work Ruth. I've never lived anywhere remotely like this! Manchester is a little different! Not sure that I'd enjoy life behind the large rock on the right :) It's a beautiful place though and lovely painting! Well done.

This has a great almost mystical feel about it - a lovely work Ruth

A beautiful painting ruth, you are so talented. made me think of pictures made from silk.

Ruth I love your style. Little bits of strategically placed detail sit so well in the painting giving it an almost mystical quality Do you know the work of Michael Morgan His watercolours have a similar approach Worth looking up on the internet if you haven't seen his work before.

Thank you all so much for your cheering comments. I think the fact that I am painting from memory (and therefore feelings evoked by the memory,) and not with the subject in front of me with all its distractions, leaves me free to hopefully paint the emotions I felt at the time I was there....if that makes any sense?? I'm certainly a daydreamer in many ways. (sometimes a handicap if I take that too far!)

Manus, yes I do know Michael Morgan's work, and in the light of your comment I will look him up again. Thanks.

Absolutely super, Ruth! Love the colors and the fabulous atmosphere. It's wonderful. Thank you very much too for your comment on my painting.

Very good Ruth. I love your harmonizing colours.

What a lovely memory you must have of this place it's such a lovely painting too. It would make a lovely illustration as background for a fairy story,I love it.

I agree with all the above comments, Ruth: this is beautiful!

Your landscapes are a real joy, Ruth.