I was commissioned at my exhibition at Guggleton Gallery, Stalbridge June 2012, to paint from the top of Bulbarrow Hill, both looking south and north. Both views are spectacular and must be some of the best and most typical of our great English landscape. I got there early in the morning, when the light is as crisp as it can be. I had to lie the canvas on the ground as the wind was so fierce. The canvas kept flipping up at me, but it did mean I produced some interesting brush strokes. I was struck by the amazing clarity of light that perhaps was created by the wind? The greens were acid and I was in danger of over intensifying the colours. I pushed it to the edge…