Chapel view, January Painting

This is the view from my studio, looking due south. Our garden runs down a steep chalk slope, consequently that the various elements layer up visually. It occurs again in "Chapel View" and "Fox Light" but this is the first time I painted it. I don't face the window in the studio but sit with my back to it ( to get the light) and this image was set up in a few lines on a scrap of paper when I was listening to some music. The shapes looked good so I resolved to paint it. I did check with reality though: the birches down the hill on the left were beginning to bud up and were flushed with pink and the spring sky was full of interesting shapes. I can watch clouds by the hour.