Titling this painting ‘Country Park’ is a bit disingenuous, it’s the local golf course. ‘Golf course’ however is not a suitable title for a landscape painting, it lacks a sense of grandeur and ambition. It has none of the romantic and epic connections to the landscape tradition. Now that I have recognised this, I will be looking further afield to a more traditional setting for landscape painting. For now, this will suffice, but you will see no red flags sticking up from the ground.
I am happy with this start, what I am searching for in these paintings is becoming more clear. These qualities are the traditional ones, a sense of light, space and atmosphere with a feeling for the drama of nature. Lets see if I am up to these grand ambitions.
Country park, day 1.