Village Life

Although the paintings are coming along well, some 34 are underway with at least a few completed, the digital images are taking longer to emerge. In part this has been a consequence of the winter conditions that have made it more difficult to progress the shooting of the photographs from which each is derived. The past couple of days have seen improved weather conditions and in turn trips to the villages have yielded some results. However village life in Leicestershire is both quiet and uneventful and especially neat and tidy! Finding fresh visual interest in some places is tougher than one might imagine. The knack seems to be in the little details; the metallic sign wrapped around the post to protect it from the farm traffic; a row of footballs neatly lined up on the bench seat; the strange upright post in the playing field;the incompleted wiring jobs etc. From these come the disjointed and clumsily arranged collaged images that spark off the ways into the paintings.