
A very typical sight across the English countryside in mid to late August is that of hay bales spaced out in fields and across hillsides and it is one that I deeply love, not least for being something that signals to me that I am back home amidst the very familiar after our travels.
Before we even went away this year, I had sighted quite a few of these peculiar tube-shapes in fields near to home; sufficient to inspire me to set to work on my most recent painting, “Hay bales on hillside“, which echoes a much earlier painting of mine from 2008 (and its always an interesting experience returning to a subject that you’ve worked on before and seeing where else you can go with it).
