"On A May Morning" tries to suggest a quiet and tranquil Sunday morning. My inspiration for this painting was a piano piece of the same title by E J Moeran (my favourite composer).

The stones in the pathway were little balls of plasticine until I stood on them and flattened them out. The grass and path edging was scrunched and pinched plasticine.

The path leads down to a bench, which sits in front of a small lake surrounded by trees in full foliage.

The grassland is scattered with the impressions of flowers, with just the flowerheads showing. To produce this effect, I used the nozzle of a Flash cleaning liquid bottle and pushed the nozzle into the plasticine and pulled it out, bringing with it a small blob of plasticine which I squashed down and painted.

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