The paintings depict the landscape around Ovingdean and transport these natural surroundings into the church as images. They are painted upon walnut panel which is revealed between the brushstrokes and in the silhouettes of the trees. The scenes are built in the mind of the viewer from dabs of  oil-colour and have no material reality.  However, the material fact of the walnut positions the artwork in the ‘real world’, subject to time and all of its forces and processes; fact and fantasy vie against each other for our attention.