Botallack - Engine Houses and Gorse

I've had a few communication issues over the past week or so. For reasons that are not very interesting, I was simultaneously without reliable Internet access (although I did discover that the local public house has excellent free Wi-Fi) and without a car. Thankfully, both are now back, and I can show you a few new paintings...

The panoramic view above is called "Engine Houses and Gorse", and depicts Botallack, West Cornwall. They may not be mining tin (or copper) there anymore, but I am still mining the wealth of photographs that I took in Easter 2012.

Oil on box canvas, 30 x 100 cm

Lowland Spring (Ashford Hill National Nature Reserve)

Yesterday was my first opportunity for a painting expedition this year. I thought to myself, surely the bluebells are out by now (they are late this year on account of spring being reluctant to show its face). So I laced up my boots and headed for the nearby bluebell woods.

There were some bluebells, but there were a lot more bluebell leaves. Maybe the woodland floor will be carpeted in blue next week...

So I kept on walking, getting slightly lost once or twice at the interface of the two maps I had with me. I was looking for a subject, but wasn't inspired enough to stop until just shy of two o'clock, by which time I was both hungry and concerned that I would run out of time.