A bucolic scene with nothing to trouble the idealised rolling Northumberland countryside. In many ways this is a reality for anyone lucky enough to live in the countryside, but to some this is an empty place with nothing to do. Anyway, it is the perfect setting for me and my landscape painting. I am liking these elevated scenes, it reduces the countryside to a series of patterns stretching to the horizon. This painting is progressing well and it is quite an interesting process of simplifying what is in front of you.
Lemington Bank, Northumberland. Day 3