… I have been painting imagery from summer.

With two heaters going, my trusty hairdryer warming me as well as drying my work, the following pushed themselves onto my canvas recently: hot fields of poppies, acres of gold barley – the pattern and texture of the local fields of my new Norfolk home.

No doubt I’ll get the urge to create winter images of the recent snow scenes in the sunny spring months of 2011?!

'Summer fields with poppies', © Mari French 2010, 60x60cm, acrylic/mixed-media on canvas.

'Walking near Castle Acre', acrylic/mixed-media on board © Mari French 2010

'Track through poppy field', © Mari French 2010, 50x50cm, acrylic/mixed-media on canvas.