This is the hollow tree at Deerhurst down by the River Severn. Started painting it after a trip there with fellow Dalai Lama Painting Club group, a unique gathering of three people who wander about the Gloucestershire countryside contemplating what to draw or paint next. In this case, I chose not to draw or paint the river, but this tree against a busy sky was my best option. At A2, this is about as large as my paintings get, and they are not done on site; I do them from drawings or photographs.

The second is a landscape that has to be one of my favourite spots in Gloucestershire, and to keep it that way I have no intention of telling you where it is, suffice to say that the Dalai Lama once watched a cricket match near here. Tenuous link? Yes, and why not?

This too is A2.

Are they finished?

I think not; they are in the middle stage of evolution, methinks, which means that I have plenty of time to foul them up.