Leisure Painter

Big grey skies

Setting off for three days’ painting in the Norfolk Broads with an artist friend last October, the forecast was for rain with occasional dry patches. Before we left the conversation went: ‘Shall we call it off?’ ‘Of course not. I like painting grey skies,’ I said,have painted big grey skies in East Anglia for many years. I returned home with half-a dozen paintings with interesting grey skies.

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