 watercolour This is the first in a series of large paintings. For me the fascination of this hedge is how it has been distorted and damaged by hedge cutting using a flail attached to a tractor. Some of the damaged branches have joined to each other, you can clearly see the line at the top of the picture where the flail has smashed both large and small growth and then left alone for some years allowing substantial growth to grow beyond that point. There is a broken branch laying across the hedge, now stripped of its bark. Behind the hedge is a wire fence, allowing dried leaves and twigs to build up further barrier. |