This vibrant water-colour by Jane Mackay does capture the very gentle lines of the hill despite its vigour, and illustrates the little tower of Parsons Folly on its top rather accurately. The red mark leading across from it to the right is either a representation of a stone wall or, much more likely, part of the iron age Kemerton Camp straddling the summit. The rather stormy, somewhat ominous sky is emphasized by the darkness and shadow of the tower. The folly as well as the dark blue are cleverly counter-balanced by the lively and lighter foreground where brightness punctuated by dark markings seem to emulate an almost musical awareness of, and insight into, most likely, merely imagined details of the landscape which do not necessarily reflect any details found on the ground; the artist is probably attempting to express some aspects of the megalithic history of this particular area.
Since the foreground takes up such a large part of the painting one can assume that the viewer's eye is intentionally lead away from recent folly (the tower on the left) to past attempts at stability and permanence (the fortress area on the right). That neither past nor recent history have managed to create any semblance of durability seems to be hinted at by the contrast between sky and hillside as well as the multitude of fleeting images on the nearby hillside - the yellow area with its parallel stripes perhaps hinting at some previous times of calm and order, with further such periods perhaps ahead in the future. Of course, someone else may see the painting completely differently, the artist included.
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