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. 

My visit to Kew Gardens in June 2018 provided me with most of the images for my series of paintings which I am near to finishing. This was not intentional however in the nearly 2000 photographs of gardens I took on that trip it appears that Kew is extremely photogenic!