The truth – I headed to the allotments at the beginning of the week, but boy was it cold! My fingers were numb before I got there and the plan was to colour match, in acrylic, on location. So I wimped out, collected a bag of leaves and branches and headed back to my studio.

A cup of tea, heater on, quick photographs taken I then set to trying to match the colours of my collection. What fun, just making marks and letting colours and shapes overlap, sit together and jump out from each other. This is just round one, there is a lot of matching to do yet!