The beautiful garden at Hidcote Manor was lovely to see last weekend. There were so many views which would have made beautiful paintings even this early in the year, but I was drawn to an area where the Alliums in the foreground led back across some poppies and up to part of the house in the background. It wasn’t the best day for sitting out and the path was too narrow in this area for me not to be a nuisance, so I took a photograph of the bit of the building I could see, decided on the format and later made some small pencil sketches. I painted it the following day at home, before I forgot what I wanted to do. It is a place where you could spend all day every day, and never run out of something to paint.
Graham Findlay Watercolours 