Home fires burning

Painted on Arches Huile paper bonded to board, set in a white wood slab frame 8cm width. Painting size is 76 x 56cm.

There is something about seeing a plume of smoke rising from a distant chimney that gives me a strong sense of home which I can feel in the pit of my stomach, a warm tingle. This painting is about that feeling. Walking over scrubby fields, heavy dew blue in the grass, in the distance a solitary ploughed field glows pinkish red in the weak sunlight. The wisp of smoke from the home fire rises and dissipates into the clouds. A beautiful mundane moment in the countryside.