Portent, July


61 cm x 61 cm
Acrylic & mixed media on cradled plywood board

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In July 2022, a local artistic charity called Arts Together arranged a painting competition day in the grounds of Bowood House, Wiltshire. Artists were given access for the first time to paint within the grounds and to complete a landscape in four hours, much like Landscape Artist Of The Year, all judged by the painter Jen Gash and Lady Landsdowne.

Unfortunately, the weather was distinctly un-July like and torrentially rained all day. Some artists chose to paint indoors, but others soldiered on. I was one of them in a makeshift rain shelter, cobbled together from plastic sheeting and valiantly trying to get any paint at all to stay on the painting.

However, all the rainy efforts paid off and the painting was awarded second prize in the competition.