Kingley Vale

Another painting carrying on with applying the mantras "Lose Edges! Join Shapes!" and "It's The Painting Not The Place" this one is of Kingly Vale in West Sussex. I am trying to avoid the Picturesque so that the painting is more of the focus than the place itself as I have chosen a pretty ordinary location and what I'm trying to make more important is the design and paint application. The placement and space occupied by the clouds hopefully gives it a slightly surreal quality and hopefully I am working out how to bring out the abstract aspects of colour and composition above a merely topographical description of a landscape - it's early days yet!
Oil on linen 16" x 12".
There is a short step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.