Where I am calling from

Though nothing is explicit within the painting there are triggers,implications of landscape features. The curve of a track on a chalk down, the shape of a field, or corner of a meadow.
It doesn't matter where this comes from, they appear. They may be happy coincidences. A feature which is in a piece of flint, survives through a watercolour and on into the oil painting. The feature has been unlocked. Perhaps it is not a trackway but a scar.
  These things could all be dismissed as unimportant, anything you look at hard enough reveals some shape, like clouds in the sky.

Oil on canvas work in progress , and the studio

Beginning of a new picture

A new canvas , made to order, a luxury, and an act of faith. A coloured ground of venetian red and yellow ochre, the first layer of paint going on