Around South Dalton on a quiet lane. 12x10 oil on canvas. SOLD

Cold day in early December, we had had snow recently and today it was grey with glimpses of the sun being a welcome. This is a view looking towards St. Mary’s Church from a little road to the south. This is an original oil on canvas board plein air painting and will be available soon. The tall dried grasses make the foreground interesting, late hanging leaves on an adjacent oak seem illuminated against a dark trunk. All is quiet, down the road a pair of pheasants silently emerge from the vegetation before disappearing again. A skein of geese, high in the sky passes over. It begins to rain and I need to close the pochard box lid. As I use water based oils I need to stop when it rains as the colours get diluted and run into each other.