Here is another painting in my series of ‘portraits’ of Newark-on-Trent, this of the castle from the towpath below Trent Bridge – currently in my exhibition at the Newfield Galleries. The low afternoon sunlight in this composition made for striking striations of light and shade from the trees on the right, so that the viewer is lead toward the castle along dark rung-like bars laid over the brightly lit pathway and under an interwoven canopy of branches.