Autumn Beech Grove, 50" x 40", January 2005, Acrylic on canvas, £1,600

I used to live in Berkshire and my favourite place for 'walking in the green' was near (the right royal rubbish tip known as) Windsor. Burnham Beeches is an ancient woodland owned solely by the City of London Corporation. Long may these nice capitalist gentleman types continue to tell developers where they may sweetly kiss to no avail. Nature on a vast estate and virtually untouched just outside of the concrete-and-traffic-fume quagmire that is London... incredible. in the south-east of England, only Arundel comes even close to this.

I feel that the best time to see the splendour of Burnham is on a sunny day in autumn when the leaves have begun to fall and have furnished a rich carpet across the ground. Any time is good though.