'You can go home again.....so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been'

Ursula K. Le Guin

I grew up in Mount Pleasant, South Derbyshire. It was a mining area in my childhood, but it's now part of the National Forest. A few years ago you had to look hard to see the trees - we used to joke about the signs that said Welcome to the National Forest with no tree in sight. But the trees were seedlings then and they're growing now - one day soon they'll reach up to the old trees.

I recently started to sketch and paint the fields and towns round about. Castle, Linton, Overseal and Swadlincote are changing but the trees and earth, the colours, remain the same.

Colours

'Red Man 1, 2 3';

'Red Woman'

Blue Man 1, 2,

Blue Man 3, 4

Blue Woman 1, 2

Painter, Writer

'Future Woman'

Stella1, Gina 1

'Eye, 'Heart'

Present Simple ;

'Present Continuous 1', Present Continuous 2' (new)

'Past Imperfect' (new)

'Fallen', 'Barred'

'Stairway', 'Table and Chairs'

'Window in Lorne', 'Blue Cushions'

'Gledhow Valley', 'Leeds 8' (new)

'Lemon Tree' (new)

People

'Dog Turning Round', 'Lion'

'Blue Doodle' & 'Playing' ;

Two Heads 1 & Two Heads 2

' Man with Pipe', 'Paul at Christmas','Man in Marsden';

'Head on Hand', 'Ron in V Neck'

'Paul with Guide', 'Man looking';

'Jane at Funeral', 'Mother'

'Japanese Man 1', 'Japanese Man 2', Japanese Man 7'

'Leaving Port Moresby', 'Shoreline'

'Two Trees', 'Potternewton Park', 'Garden'

'Stile in Winter'

'Piano';

'Stripy Apple', 'Two Little Apples', 'Dried Flowers'