
Introduction to Honeyed Times (2021 - ongoing)
Another year another series started! This one is bringing it back to flowers and gardens. Which are always some of my favourite paintings to work on! I love the variety of colours, textures, and differing levels of delicacy that I get to interpret through paint. To me there is nothing more appealing to paint than plants and nature.
British Horticulture Series - From start to finish (Part 2 of 2)
Kew’s Princess of Wales Conservatory (2019) was one where my ambition clearly got away from me. I was enchanted with this temperate house at Kew Garden’s, brimming with a variety plants, home to plants from 10 different climate zones! This painting centres on the wet tropical zone of the conservatory, home of the iconic Victoria amazonica waterlily’s, I believe my ambition grew to match the 2.8 meters of them. Nevertheless I made my way slowly and surely through the painting and after many painstaking hours I finally finished it. After-which I boasted for months that it was my masterpiece.
British Horticulture Series - From Start to Finish (Part 1 of 2)
At the beginning of the month I finished my series of British Horticulture paintings! For now! There will probably be a part 2 someday, but for now I am moving onto another topic! But I wanted to do a bit of a recap of the whole series as a wrap up, and go into some of the details about the paintings individually and what it was like painting them.
My Watercolour Palettes’ Story
This is a tale in which I share how I came to use the watercolour paints and palettes that I do and a story of coincidence and serendipity which follows.