I’ve completed the first of my wide landscape views of Southwell Minster. In fact I did this one as a triptych, using three small canvases to get the greater width. Its a view I especially like – with the Minster seen through the Remembrance Gate at the recreation ground. The gates of the arch are approached by an avenue of trees that normally more or less obscure the Minster but in winter, with all the foliage stripped away, the structure of the tower and the gates is revealed, whilst the substantial tree trunks themselves lead into the composition.

Susan Isaac - Southwell Minster from the Park in Winter (oil on canvas, each 30 x 24cm)