The more thoughts that flow in my What is Art? series on Twitter - @jenny_hare - the more I fall in love with painting – if that’s possible because I’m already besotted. It’s just so fabulously complex and yet simultaneously simple that it takes my breath away. I look out of my window as I type this and the mizzle is coming down but the colours are enchanting – the blue, coal and great tits on the peanuts lighting up the foreground and beyond the autumn gold and russet leaves contrasting strikingly with the darkly rain-soaked tree trunks. It’s a work of art. What has this to do with painting? Well - everything. It feeds my mind with colour and beauty and makes me think of the great artist