Throughout the second year of my study I have been concentrating on the theme of landscape. It began with some simple sketch drawings outside. I drew in locations around Lincoln which had intriguing view points of the city; they had a sense of the light decaying. The word decay had been an important word in my practice as it introduced me into painting the evening sky, where the light was sparse and an artificial glow was forming from the street lamps. Not only was the sky changing rapidly, so was the land. There was a sense of transition in the city; a movement of people on foot or vehicle from their profession to their homes. This ‘transitional period’ is an idea which I have experimented with; the oil and ink studies trying to represent a personal view on the landscape.