This piece began as an orange background. A few days later I laid put some newspaper on the floor and laid the canvas down. Then I took three acrylic tubes of paint - orange, yellow and red, and squeezed them over the painting. In my mind I was trying to emulate Jackson Pollock. I put this painting to one side. A week went by before I added anything more to it.

I then added a darker red near the top; darker orange near the bottom. I was not really happy with it.  On Friday put yellow and beige onto a palette. Then using the Chinese Fan brush and dabbed the colour over the predominantly orange section and turned the canvas around. Kate looked at it and said she saw trees with orange and beige leaves. In the morning I saw what Kate saw, and accentuated the thickness of the red lines of paint so that they became trunks; branches and twigs. I continued using the Chinese fan brush to add more of the orange and beige leaves.

This work is not complete - I added a darker layer of orange and red to try to create depth to the painting.