Spring Calling is a vibrant semi-abstract landscape painting of the glorious view across a bluebell field towards a green valley and the Ashdown Forest beyond. It is 36 x 24 x 1.5 inches. This landscape shows blossom trees at the top of a high bank on the left, with cast shadows across most of the painting, which is filled with bluebells. The valley below shows luminous green trees and beyond them is the Ashdown Forest. This painting was formulated in my mind last April after a late afternoon walk I took near where I live. The sun was still bright but the shadows were long and the scent of bluebells and blossom was almost too much. I love the contrast between the sweep of shadows where the bluebells are growing and the light in the clearing below, and the way some of the pink blossom was lit by the low rays of the sun. It was one of those bucolic places you come across sometimes in Sussex, not dramatic but still taking your breath away. The painting is on wide-edge canvas, painted a muted purple colour which integrates into the edges of the painting and helps propel the viewer into the scenery. Painted on deep-edge canvas, ready to hang; no frame needed, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
