The title conveys my pace of work, not the fact that March has been a slow month – au contraire, we’re nearly at the end of it and I have been silent all month!
I’ve been enjoying the local lanes and hedges, in that period where everything is twiggy and you can see much further than when all the greenery bursts forth.
I’ve been particularly inspired, again, by the work of Rowland Hilder who excels at that kind of low key winter landscape. We don’t have any of his beloved oasthouses in Somerset but we do have the hedges, lanes , bare trees and wheelruts.
This selection is based on the subtle, rather than spectacular glimpses that are seen by the farmers, walkers, riders, cyclists and motorists who use the triangular network of lanes between Moorlinch, Stawell and Sutton Mallet. Beauty on our doorstep!
This view looks beyond Sutton Mallets to the Quantock Hills.
The maize stubble is wonderful for showing the shape of the contours – this is sketched just past Fursedown Farm.
More lovely hedges showing how the lane loops, between Tapmoor and Sutton Mallet Farm:
Art by Anne Farmer 