Susan Isaac – Church Gardens, Newark-on-Trent

This second Rufford exhibition painting is of the St Mary’s Church Gardens at Newark-on-Trent.

The brightening atmosphere of a November afternoon, following a  shower of rain, created wonderful reflections on the silvered paving stones in the foreground. Subtle grey/blues were mirrored from the sky as was the shard of the Church spire.

I wanted to be very restrained in my use of colours and was pleased with this simple juxtaposition of the many tinted greys with the green of the vegetation.