This was a very complicated picture to draw out. Unhelpfully the farmers did not follow the natural underlying contours of the land when they laid out their fields. The placement of them almost disguises and distorts the rhythms of the landscape but when you look across the whole area you can see the shape of the skeleton. On the subject of pentimenti, it is the idiosyncratic shapes of the fields that give this landscape a particular character. I am trying to capture the precise nature of these shapes rather than come to a poorly observed approximation.
Cloudburst over Lorbottle Day 1