

Colour & Contrast
Following on from the pale grey, blues of last month's paintings inspired by Compton Beach on a still, quiet evening, I have been working on a vividly contrasted canvas that belongs to a series inspired by evening on the River Yar. I lived for eight years in a cottage right on the river at Mill Creek where the tide came up to the quay wall a few feet from the house, which looked due West and from where I witnessed many spectacular sunsets. Late last year I undertook a commi