A distant portrait...

Continuing with my Still Life project....

A Lily....

Light, colour and textures: the subject of this essay.

I have been collecting these lilies on my sitting room floor... If only I could keep it as a sculpture! The title comes from Tennessee Williams' "Street Car Named Desire"

Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type. It owed its existence to the need to protect the important dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850s. Rapid improvements to artillery technology in the mid-19th century meant that the tower was effectively obsolete as soon as it had been completed. A proposal to turn it into a casemated fort was dropped for being too expensive. By the end of the 19th century the tower had gained a new significance as a defence against raids by fast torpedo boats. It was used in both the First and Second World Wars, when its fabric was substantially altered to support new quick-firing guns.

This is a teaser: one of the images in my upcoming landscapes project...

A morning at Knole Park, Sevenoaks, worth a visit. You can go in without paying going through the gate opposite The White Hart pub

My attempt to convey a contradictory feeling: the freshness of the strawberries in a new season with the dried leaves of the background in an imaginary cornucopia format