Having just completed a couple of moorland paintings in oil and cold wax I put the details on my spreadsheet and noticed it needed updating generally and a bit more organisation would be beneficial. Some paintings were no longer available because i had painted over them. So I took them all out of their hiding places, took new photographs for some, measured them and entered their names on a new spreadsheet. I was shocked to find exactly how many available paintings I have. The grand total was 80, yes, eighty! And that did not include the nine I have been working on in the studio, which includes this one here.

A cull was definitely in order. I managed to reduce the number by three! Maybe I should have been more ruthless, but hey, I can always paint over them.!

The painting here of moorland in early summer, with cottongrass, boggy places and crumbling stone walls reminds me of Bamford Moor. Back when it became Access Land in about 2000, there were no footpaths across from Bamford Moor to Stanage Edge, plenty of sheep trails which you could easily be tempted to follow and end up ankle deep in boggy marsh. Being intrepid explorers back then we set out to find a way and after several failed attempts, we finally did.. The sheep knew the way.