“Landing Down”

The scene here depicts, in a somewhat anachronous and idealised way, various elements of my early life that were highly influential throughout my upbringing.

The landscape represents the area where I was born and lived during various stages of my childhood, and we are looking south from the Army Air Corps airfield at Middle Wallop in the foreground. The tree line on the horizon marks the Bronze Age settlement of Danebury Ring with the hedgerows and woodlands of the Hampshire countryside in the middle distance. The weather is fair, the trees are green, therefore in leaf and the fields are bare suggesting that this is an English late summer, probably around August after the harvest has been brought in.

An Army Lynx helicopter, which is the aircraft my father flew during his military career, approaches the tarmac area to make a landing. In the lower right of the scene is me (the artist) aged about 3 years old, dressed in a T-shirt and shorts being held by my mother as we wait for my father to land.

In keeping with the childhood theme, the title of this picture "Landing Down" is in fact a turn-of-phrase I used around the age in which I appear in this scene.

Title:                                      "Landing Down"
Medium:                             Digital Painting on MacBook Pro using Sketchbook.
Completed:                        6th December 2021.