on vacant and empty landscapes

Thinking more about yesterday and the upcoming Art Auction, I thought perhaps I should see it as another platform for art - a lost leader of sorts - no monetary gain but good exposure... I will be putting in this work...Crag I, mixed media on panel, 30cm x 90cm, 2007Here is a close up of some textures...Crag was, in part, inspired by many trips to Covehithe... here's a photograph of the eroding cliffs, taken on December 31st 2007...Covehithe cliffs, SuffolkAll of which got me thinking about the many photographs I have of vacant and empty places, landscapes devoid of people or buildings... here are but a few, which again most definitely inspired my larger paintings...A train journey through the fens, probably near Peterborough, February 2006Salthouse beach, Norfolk, June 2009The North Sea, Dunwich, Suffolk, February 2007Field, Suffolk, June 2004Mist over lake, January 2009I really should read Bachelard again......