Blewburton Hill, Hot day

Title:  Blewburton Hill, Hot Day

Artist’s notes: Blewburton Hill in summer, Oxfordshire. A bright, modern image the painting depicts the ancient terracing of the iron-age settlement against a lime green field of unripe corn, with a stylised foreground of weeds and Cow Parsley; it makes a striking statement piece.

“The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, and hide in cooling trees, a voice will run from hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper’s, he takes the lead In summer luxury… He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.”

— John Keats (From On the Grasshopper and Cricket 1816)

Medium: oil on paper with lead pencil overlaid while wet

Original: retained by the artist

Prints: Giclee prints AVAILABLE to purchase in various sizes - enlargements of this image work really well - please message me via the contacts page to enquire.