Southland landscape with poppies

Hi there
this is my tentative studio for the interim..(i think i should post a few photos of the different corners i had as a studio over the yonks!)
anyway- it took me months to finish this one- main reason was that i had a 6 months contract and we had to move from our little village into the bigg city of Dunedin..:D lol - so time did nt alow much creativity.
to the point- to the point of the painting.. I started playing with acrylics, but as you can see these hands want to do oils ...reallly..
Had to explore the medium though and realized one has to buy the best quality pigment with trial and error and use alot of different brands in the process. Especially with NZ colours, light etc.
This is a large, contempory style landscape with lots of textures!! There must be about 5 layers of background build up...(with paint underlays and not texture products)I am happy with the end product and gosh did it take a long time ( and lots of paint!) to be completely satisfied with the end product. Hope my friend likes it too..!