' Conkwell Grange ' Mare and Foal was
painted during the summer of 1992 in the beautiful English county of Wiltshire.
That was the year I took up painting and went in at the deep-end with oil paints.
'Conkwell Grange' was my fifth completed painting and it was an epic undertaking at the
time. I laid the background colour on in oils and made a detailed drawing on top and
sealed it, and then for weeks I was too terrified to start painting! I mucked around with
another small painting and some drawings, and eventually I began painting and it took 5 or
6 weeks to complete the horses. I was then faced with the somewhat daunting prospect
of cutting in a different background colour around them, and was enormously relieved when
it was suggested that they looked very well against the original under-painting colour and
there was nothing to be gained by going any further!
