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Exscape - Oil on Canvas
The Exe does not have the deep moodiness of the Thames, but always seems to convey something of the cheerfulness and the plunge and rush of its source on Exmoor, within sight of the Welsh mountains. In composing this picture I had in mind the melodic structure of a Cezanne landscape. I wanted to make the colour shimmer from point to point in lucid free-flowing forms, pleasurable in themselves but also effective as description, to capture the joy of the Exe in summer.
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