The Pink Estate

This landscape painting was done outdoors during the spell of good weather in late April 2025 in Beith, North Ayrshire. It's a view from my garden, that sits at the top of an embankment, through trees down onto Montgomery Avenue. I hope you get from it the impression of burgeoning life and the vibrancy of nature. Over the course of about a week, while I was painting this, those foreground trees went from being completely bare to having new foliage sprouting all over. It's a frenetic painting in all parts and yet there is a focal point - the car in the drive, just off centre. It looks like a pink estate car but the term 'estate' can also refer to a housing estate and as the roofs are dominantly pink, the name of this painting has, therefore, a double meaning. The reddish roofs compliment and provide some balance to the otherwise dominating greens. It's painted on canvas in oils, initially with paint and white spirit and latterly with paint and linseed oil.