Struggling!

With Christmas racing towards me, since I know we must leave for a big family Christmas in Dorset, I am racing against the clock to finish my last painting ideas for my London exhibition. These are oil paintings measuring 80cms x 50cms (there are three others started) and it's on a continuing theme of trying to capture the feeling of flight over land. It has been so many years that I have flown in the balloon and wanted to do this, that I hoped that the London exhibition would be the ideal time to show these works.

Although this, the first painting, has been a bit tricky to resolve, it's been fun to trace my way through the Sienese countryside that I know like the back of my hands after the many years I've driven chase to my husband's balloon and enjoyed it from the air.