Lamplight Brooke

There is a mystery about brooks and rivers as they meander on their courses. Where did they start? Where are they headed? What will they see along the way?

When I painted Lamplight Lane – the first in the series which Lamplight Brooke follows – I found myself wondering about the sylvan stream that runs alongside the village lane. I christened it the Brooke Windermer and even imagined it wending its way through the English countryside. I even daydreamed that I was floating in a skiff – as many Englishmen do –  past its picturesque villages and farms.

Lamplight Brooke is my delightful result of this voyage of the imagination. I view this painting as the sequel to Lamplight Lane, and I envision this as the village that lies just downstream. The quaint village, with its thatched-roofed cottages linked by flagstone paths, its sculpted hedges and flowering shrubs, its brightly lit windows and smoking chimneys, its ducks and geese, is roughly based on Bourton-on-the-Water – a charming English town that I very much enjoy. Where will the Brooke Windermer meander next? Keep an eye out for the answer – I promise you won’t be sorry.