Autumn Radiates is an autumn-inspired oil painting of a stag and three deer under luminous orange, magenta and gold trees – 30 x 30 x 1.5 inches. It was painted after a walk I took in the Burwash area of East Sussex (Rudyard Kipling territory). I had been walking down a steep hill with rows of trees and a hedgerow marking the edge of the fields. Under one stand of trees was a group of deer who I seem to see often and have painted often (one buck, three hinds; not the same group but it feels like it!). The painting style is contemporary, wet-into-wet, impasto style, which appears to radiate with the energy of autumn (hence the title). It pays homage to the beautiful landscape paintings of Gustav Klimt, whom I admire for his ability to take something as apparently dull as the corner of a field and part of a tree and make it absolutely fascinating. This painting reflects my favourite warm autumn colours and my favourite animals, and is of one of my favourite walking areas. To visit, park in Burwash and walk behind the houses in any direction and say hello to my deer for me. Painted on deep-edge canvas. White, ready to hang.
