After Seago by Peter Davison

Lovely subtle use of colours! Well done!

I think you have got a bit of the feeling of Seago's work here Richard, look forward to seeing more of your work.

I can see the Seago influence, more in the tall trees than in anything else - but you don't claim to be channeling him, after all, so that's really all you need. I can also see Martin Kinnear's influence in the luminous oil colour mixes. You've got a Seago gate, as well - so many of his paintings had a gate. I like the simplicity of the composition; had a minor row with a painter elsewhere over a Cézanne - the painting was Melted Snow at Fontainebleau. Cézanne's photograph of the scene still exists, and the painting is a considerable simplification of it - I felt that was an entirely good thing: the other painter didn't (I think he hated it). You have followed the Cézanne approach of cutting out all extraneous and confusing detail, which I think is the soundest approach.