DescriptionOriginal Size 88.3 x 65.0cm, ink and watercolour. As so often in Palmer’s work the narrative is strong: pilgrims walk along a path between trees, through a wood, and towards a church. But this is not necessarily doctrinal imagery – the church, the path, the wood, the book – but something universal: life’s ways; life’s travails; the need for rest before continuing; the need for a guide book, green as the surrounding fields, from which to seek direction. It is late summer, early autumn – the hay is still in the fields, and there’s light suffusing the picture from a sun low on a distant horizon.
