The Field

Art in the field

RATHER excitingly, David Hunt is striding across Romney Marsh into the teeth of Storm Debi as we talk. Accompanied by whistling wind, he describes the scene: “I am walking out across the marshes now and it is nearly pitch black – yet I can still see things even now. And then I can see to sketch, and I can sit and draw, which is my work. I can be in the countryside walking and drawing and getting ideas, and there is not much

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