Flower Power!

Flowers - nature’s wonderful gifts to us - and one of my favourite things to paint! These three paintings were inspired by a visit to the recent Cézanne exhibition at Tate Modern. I’d just finished working on a portrait of a racehorse that I needed every bit of my focus and attention, and it was the perfect inspiration to what to paint next. Painting flowers gives me the opportunity to really enjoy the act of painting, and the energy created by moving paint across the surface in a free state of flow. And I get to play with colour! Painting them on different backgrounds allows the flowers to take on a whole new character, as one colour sets off another. I hope looking at these paintings brings you in the moment and you can lose yourself in the joy of colour!