This painting has now dropped out of The Gallery so here is the note about it for the record:

‘This small painting is one of those with which all artists must be familiar: I had no idea of what to paint when I started fiddling on this A4-sized hand-made paper, a material I very much like because of its absorbent quality and the way in which it goes on ‘growing’ outwards as the oil spreads through it. This image sort of painted itself from nothing: it is of course pure fantasy without being an abstract, for standing stones and a blue Silbury Hill are clearly recognisable. Both are elements in numerous of my paintings: here they are merely juxtaposed in an unreal, out of scale composition which, I suspect, unconsciously owes something to antiquarian drawings of dolmens and, in its size and ‘huddle’, to my earlier small  painting                                           of  ‘medieval Stonehenge’ (84/06, formerly in The Gallery, now removed).’