A summer update in which I have been mostly obsessively painting some concrete blocks on a hill.

I attended a lecture at Wiltshire Museum  about the remnants of a pre-WWI wireless receiving station on nearby Morgan's Hill. As a seasoned aerial-botherer, the top of the hill has been a favourite of mine for some time but the older wireless station was new to me. An exploratory trip over there in spring to investigate the remains revealed some lovely concrete blocks covered with moss and lichen like ancient stones. 

There’s a record of some of the process of drawing, paint sketching and using collage on my website blog here, here and here.

These were eventually wrangled into two new paintings:

More to follow in the autumn newsletter, including some new work in exhibitions later in the year.

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Laura