Summer Riot is a large square semi-abstract landscape painting of a hare in a wild summer meadow. It is 40x40x1.5 inches. The idea of this painting was to show the sheer enthusiasm with which nature expresses itself – even in the smallest corner of a summer field. It is literally exploding with life and energy. The flowers are fairly abstract but hint at buttercups and clover, and a mad array of grasses and other wildflowers. The hare is hiding to the right of the centre of the summer explosion, and she looks a little confused by it all. The edges are blurred, and the paint thickness varies a lot in order to add to the slightly mad energy of it. It was painted after a walk I took recently near the South Downs, where the farmland is simply beautiful and a corner of a meadow is endlessly entertaining (to me at least). I did see a hare in the distance, but she did pose for more as this one does (I do love artistic license). Painted on deep-edge canvas, with white edges; ready to hang, no frame needed, and comes with a certificate of authenticity and gifts from the artist.
