This painting, Raindrops, was inspired by Gustave Caillebotte's painting of the river Yerres in the rain.
There is a lake near to where I live called Lake Esmond, but on a rise of land running next to it is a pond. Sometimes it is so still it looks like a mirror and it is this pond that became the model for my painting. Most of it was painted on site but I did the rings in the studio. I didn't paint it when it was raining, but now and again I threw some very small pebbles in the water to remind me of how rings form when raindrops begin to break the water surface.
Raindrops, 2020, oil on panel, 40 x 40 cm
