“This painting makes me nostalgic - remembering long family walks through the open heathland, a good dog walk with a hearty rewarding pub lunch at the end. It's based on the Ashdown Forest which has over 2500 hectares of heathland with lots of tracks, bracken and gorse and is a favourite spot for walkers and ramblers for miles around. I wanted to accentuate the path worn into the earth in this painting, with touches of heather and chalk tracks amongst the grass, an expression of the many lives that have trodden the same path.”
