Summer Lightning - Acrylic on Canvas

For the most part the English summer landscape presents a mild and gentle scene, but just occasionally a thunder storm can erupt even out of sunny skies and shake the treetops, bend the grass, and drench both cattle and unwary walkers alike. Using almost abstract forms appropriate to impersonal forces I wanted to catch here along the river Yeo the sense of surprise as a brief storm sweeps by.

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