Plantation meets Goring Gap

I am often on local walks now. One I like a lot takes me down the Goring-on-sea Plantation. The Plantation is a narrow line of woodland which was planted in 19th century by the Lyon family, owners of Goring Hall, and is now a public right of way. It stretches from the Hall south to the seafront, called Goring Gap at that point. A sight which always strikes me is seeing the beachline emerging as you are halfway down through the trees. At first, it is distant, with layers of rising blocks of colour, in turn, green, then yellow, then turquoise and then light blue. You are going through a doorway to another doorway which becomes closer as you go through. After walking there several times I decided to capture in a painting the point at which the Plantation door is finally wide open to the beachline. I used oils with turps and linseed oil to get different flows of muted coloured paints, seeking to blend the light and shade rather than make starker contrasts. I added elements of Pointillism for the leaves, some of which fall from the large evergreen Ilex even in the spring as foliage is renewed. I thought I would put a photo of the work on a local Facebook group and ask if they recognised the view and felt happy when they did, as I felt I had captured it for others, not just myself. Doing art is an important part of my settling in our new neighbourhood, it makes me feel at home in several senses: with nature, history and community.