‘Autumn hillside, above Crieff’, Acrylic and pastel, 76 x 23 cm.
This is one of my recent paintings and is one of several that I have been working on based on the beautiful upland countryside near Crieff, in Perthshire. We have walked these hills on a number of occasions and under very different conditions. Only a year ago, we were forced to retreat from the upper slopes of Ben Chonzie by an increasingly ferocious, winter gale, but when we visited earlier this autumn, we saw the landscape in fine weather. As we started to descend, the late afternoon sun picked out the vivid autumn colours.
This painting will be exhibited as part of my exhibition at The Strathearn Gallery in February.
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