I have been trying to find time to indulge in some of my own hobbies and recently created this Birdseye watercolour of our family farm. We have had the farm in the family for over 100 years and are lucky enough to know a lot of the history including all the original field names. While lots of the fields have been merged since our family took over the farming of Olmstead back in 1919, I laid out the field on the painting as they would have been back then. I believe it is so important to record old field (and farm) names as sadly smaller family farms are swallowed by bigger estate farms and we loose all this history. There's so much meaning behind each name from what grazed there to who farmed there once before. I have added modern day ponds (re-dug or added to the farm in the past year too).
I guess it's a creative illustration celebrating over a century of farming at Olmstead. I am very happy to take of water colour commissions of the same nature - either of farms (I would need boundary maps, field names etc.. provided) or of villages and towns that are special to people. Contact me for more information at emikiddy@googlemail.com for more information.
