I know what I want from this painting, but achieving it is another thing. What I am trying to capture is not the easy division of fields but the light moving across the underlying structure of the landscape. This is much more subtle and I have spent the afternoon staring at my photo for information that simply isn’t there! I have the image of this landscape in my mind as if Eric Ravilious had painted it. His graphic style is quite illustrative but I like his high key colour palette and the vitality of his mark making. The landscape that I want is slowly emerging and what I like about its particular quality is precisely that sense of a slow accumulation of colour shifts.
Cloudburst over Lorbottle. Day 4