Page 8 - OSG: 25 Years on Motcomb Street

ANTHONY BLACKWELL

The Wheat Field, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 100 cm

This landscape is painted like most of my landscapes in recent years from a
combination of visual memory and imagination. I am no longer able to visit
the places I enjoy any more due to failing eyesight and mobility issues. I have
always loved trees and they are invariably the starting point in my woodland
scenes. I often paint them as I have here in combination with fields, woodland
paths and a distant horizon to focus the eye.

I started this painting before my cataract operation last August (the second
one following this January) so this may have affected the end result.

Hoping the gallery will be celebrating another twenty five years at least.