Kit Glaisyer painted this landscape commission 15 years ago from Lewesdon Hill, focusing on tree silhouettes and the quiet of wind and pheasants. He's reframing it now for an October exhibition at Poundbury, and reflects on how his technique has loosened since then, from careful color gradations to a more painterly approach.
So this is a commission that I actually made about 15 years ago. It's one of my early commissions, and one of my early landscape commissions. It's a view from Lewiston Hill, and I think it was the first painting I did on Lewiston Hill. I just really love these silhouettes of the trees. So you look out and from Lewiston Hill across towards Pilton Pen over there. And it's, uh, it's a very, very quiet place. It's all you can really hear are the pheasants and the sound of the wind in the trees. And it's really interesting to look at it. So basically, this is back from Patreon. I'm going to be framing it up so that it looks even better, and I'm going to be exhibiting it in October at my next exhibition in Poundbury, which is very exciting. And yeah, it's just really interesting to look at it because I would paint it differently now. It's— I still love this painting, but my technique has kind of loosened up a lot. So in a way, this painting was me kind of learning how to create the depth and the gradations of color and tone that I wanted to create. And I've learned to do that now, and now I can do that, but I can do it in a far looser way. So nowadays it's a lot more sort of painterly, if you like. But yeah, it's really lovely to have it back, and I'm looking forward to seeing it framed.
