This week the weather steadied – snow bedded deep and days were cold. The whiteness is wearing and we’re all tired. I ventured out  to meet my friend Sheila who was painting nearby, but mostly continued work in the garden. Along with my usual pen and watercolour, I changed to oil paint on board for the first time in a long while. I felt that I needed paint with substance to convey the scene. I made four small paintings of our trees, birds and hedgerow at the end of the garden next to the field, making wilder marks as I became increasingly cold… Brrr!!! Here are my paintings and drawings:

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Food under the plum tree, (January 2013), Oil on board

Snow banked up, (January 2013), Oil on board

Snow under the hedgerow

Too cold under the hedge

Cold Lane

Cold Lane

Acrobat on the peanut feeder

Cold trees with chaffinches