All last week I was working on a painting of Exeter Canal, but that is not the painting I have just finished; the new painting depicts the sun going down over a Brittany beach and a little French boy running with his pail to the water’s edge. This painting is a birthday present for my brother-in-law, with whom Chris and I will be staying very soon. The beach is one we know quite well as it is around the corner from Glyn’s house in Le Conquet. I hope the birthday boy will like the painting – it is rather a big one to hide away from view if he doesn’t…