Those of you who read my recent post seeing lavender may be interested to see the resulting painting, just completed, inspired by that day’s sketching on north Norfolk saltmarshes…

Sea lavender © Mari French 2011

Like a lot of my work, this is acrylic on textured, deep-sided canvas, 61 x 61 cm.

It’s rare that I work up a painting direct from a sketch, as I find this a bit constricting, but this work is obviously heavily influenced by my original impression, although I didn’t have it sat in front of me while I painted in order to keep an element of freedom in its execution.