30 x 30 x 1.5 inches semi-abstract landscape painting in summer rainbow colours with a swallow. I painted this on a hot day in September after a walk in the fields near where I live. It felt like the end of summer, as the next day the weather changed. I used very warm, bright colours, including bright orange, yellow, pink and green, and I made the background blurred and shimmery to give the idea of flowers in the heat. Swallows are regular in England in summer, and I love to watch them scudding over the fields and hills of Sussex. However, they will soon be leaving, and although it feels a little sad, as it heralds the end of summer, it is also optimistic as it looks forward to the beginning of autumn, which sees equally beautiful landscapes. The painting style is semi-abstract, expressionist, with Art Nouveau-type shapes standing in relief in some parts, especially round the bird. It is partly realistic and partly exuberantly decorative. Painted on deep-edge canvas; edges white, no frame needed.
