Spring Calls, 2020

Spring Calls is a 16 x 40 x 1.5-inch panoramic oil-on-canvas painting of a spring landscape with magpies. It is a semi-abstract painting showing two magpies flying over a lake and the marshy wildflower meadows that surround it. The main colours are pink and green, and it was inspired by a walk I took around Bewl Water lake in East Sussex last summer. There is a marshy part of the lake where pink flowers bloom and lots of green moss and reeds grow. This is my impression of that day. It has been painted as part of a series of four landscapes about the seasons.