Original artwork description:

Walking has been essential to me in lock-down. The ability to be outside at first for only half an hour per day was a tough call for many during lock-down. I was fortunate to be allowed to visit my partners allotment (an allowed activity throughout). Due to crohns disease medications I had to 'stringently social distance'.

Every time the rules slackened we made a point of walking further afield. Literally into the fields around where we lived. Social distancing made the sports I usually paint inaccessible, so the observations I was making were in nature.

Taken many photographs over the months of the amazing colours in nature. This watercolour captures a particularly beautiful evening. Bright green trees in the foregound against golden fields. The colours appearing to bleed into the skies.

During lock-down I was part of a group of artists who set challenges either based on an artistic style, medium or subject. This was actually relating to Turner's observations of sky and light. Based on photographs taken whilst walking in Yorkshire near Malham. I've created a collection "Covid Creativity - Art from Lock-down".

Image 28 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8") is completed in watercolour and salt on rough not watercolour paper. The frame is white plastic with wood effect with a clear acrylic front 35 x 28 cm (14 x 11")

(C) of the image remains with the artist

Materials used:

Watercolour and Salt

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