Poppy Bight, 36" x 36", October 2005, Acrylic on canvas, £600

A return to landscape painting but using a square canvas. The difficulty here is not in the process of painting or the perspective but composition. A single subject or abstract image can fill a square canvas without too much thought and yet remain quite dynamic. A landscape has many elements competing for the viewer's gaze.

I interrupted the cool tones of the background with some windblown poppy petals in 'cooled' red tones. I was mindful of the angle of the brushstrokes and their relative length, ignoring the urge to blend the colours more carefully or introduce more detail. This is me painting 'happy' with big blobs of colour and lots of abandon.