If you want to put order and control into nature then this will take over your life because nature is relentless. How can you balance an obsessive tendency towards order and neatness and at the same time contend with nature which doesn’t care about either? This is the subject of this painting. The landscape is overwhelming and if your going to make your living from it then you are dealing with something that is far more powerful than yourself. I think this is coming through in this painting. One of the details I find amusing is that the owners of the farmhouse, despite being surrounded by nature have planted rose bushes in their front garden. I have yet to paint these perfect blooms but this will become apparent.
The farmhouse. Day 5