As summer melts into autumn, I am back in the studio.

Last summer I spent many hours in the shade of a cape lilac tree watching a harvester mark a field while staying at Katrine, near Toodyay. As the shadows lengthened in the golden hour, I watched as the harvester lines and hillside changed into a painting in my mind.

In this first study, charcoal defined the composition before underpainting in purple and gold. Juicier paint applied for final layer.

Study is a very small work which will be translated into a larger canvas with more space for the eye to get lost in.