Coming Soon!

Land East of High Street.

An exhibition of paintings at Limited Edition Framing, Halstead High Street.

The title is taken from Braintree District Council’s planning application address. It refers to an area of woodland in the heart of Halstead under threat from development. In its past lives it has been a garden, allotments, and a site for air-raid shelters in World War 2. Now it is an area of woodland, somewhat unloved and ignored, and an occasional victim of fly tipping.

I live at the southern end of this woodland and have seen another side to it. At night I hear the calls of Tawny Owls and watch bats dart overhead. Shy Muntjac deer are emboldened and bark their calls to each other. By day, Red Kites and Buzzards majestically patrol the sky as well as a whole host of smaller birds that call the woodland home.

I have watched the trees change with the seasons. The starkness of winter reveals the skeletons of the trees, while spring, summer and autumn clothe them in varying shades of verdant green and shimmering reds and gold.

On show will be a few studies I have made of this precious green sanctuary.