This jigsaw puzzle is a reproduction of an original painting by artist gill erskine hill painted under her former name of gillian mitchell it shows an idyllic english landscape view of a wooded valley with sheep grazing in the foreground a patchwork of fields in the background and hanging precariously in the sky beneath the clouds a hot air balloon it is a scene of rural bliss with the unusual addition of a balloon drifting overhead and it makes a jigsaw puzzle which is a joy to assembl