Last week I spent a wonderful few days walking and drawing around a very sunny Wiltshire with artist Jo Beal. On one of the days we sat up looking over Pewsey Vale and made repeated sketches of the magnificent vista stretching away for miles in front of us. Autumn colours were starting to pop up amongst the intricate mapping of fields and boundaries and I spent a lot of time thinking about how to convey the distance created by so many layers of undulating landscape. We were so concentrated on the view, that it was a total surprise to suddenly realise that half a dozen cows had crept up and laid down just behind us. Who knows if we were invading their usual spot, or they were just curious and wanted the company, but they stayed still patiently watching us as we grabbed the opportunity to turn our attention, and pencils, to them instead.
