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Having returned from a trip to New England with my head full of the colours of Fall in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, paintings in the colours of Fall seemed like a good idea. If you haven’t been and witnessed it with your own eyes, it is difficult to convey the sheer intensity of the reds, oranges and yellows, and the vastness of the forests. So the problem then was how do I paint it? If I was to paint a landscape in those colours it would look too technicolour, too unreal. You would say, no, that can’t be true. So I didn’t. I used oil and cold wax and spread it onto a panel or five in a random way and hoped for the best! They are still work in progress, but getting there.

The other news, is that I have three paintings in an open exhibition in the Usher Art Gallery in Lincoln. It was a complete surprise to me that all three of my paintings were accepted. The exhibition is entitled “Out of Lockdown”. The only criteria was that they had to have been painted in lockdown, which they were. Two of them are about allotments the other is called “Out of the Blue”, so I guess the subject matter helped. The allotment paintings came about because someone is trying to get the money together and permission to build a community shop/centre on the allotments down the road. Naturally the people who have spent twenty years working them are a bit upset. So after visiting them and witnessing the sheer hard work that goes into them, and marvelling at the variety of materials from which allotment sheds are built, I painted two pictures in support of allotment owners.

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