Kevin Ryan: The landscape

The landscape

The landscape here fascinates me...it has been formed and reformed over a long period of time...

"The landscape here fascinates me. Much of it has been formed and re-formed over a long period of time by agrarian communities.

In some parts of Norfolk the land is worked intensively with ploughed fields of buttery lumps of earth in the winter and yellow ochre swathes of barley and wheat in the summer. In spring these same areas take on a sheen of lime green and in autumn the stubble fields are a golden brown displaying incredible textures.

I like the copses and small plantations of bare trees in the winter and I love the corduroy effect of freshly ploughed and tilled fields in the autumn. The intensely black alluvial soil of the Fens, especially in winter, is also attractive to me. The saltmarshes are magical places with the clumps of phragmites reeds and the purple swathes of sea lavender contrasting with the glittering silver of tidal creeks snaking a path to the sea. I am fascinated by the hedgerows in this area - particularly in winter when their black filigree patterns are silhouetted against the late afternoon sky."

Fring landscape

Towards Inmere

Fields near Wells