video to come
Ditches like this are usually cleared once a year,
but if left longer they quickly become narrow
strips of wildness cutting through the fen.
I'm only just starting to understand how water,
nature and agriculture interlock here.
Gary Scarff clearing a ditch for the
Littleport Drainage Board
oil study looking up
oil study looking down
imagining colour
areas of the study,
details of photographs and canvas proportions
before finishing the studies outdoors.
underpainting
finished studies
and
first colour fields