ENV 109 Surrey Hills Flowers 50x50cm £300
ENV 159 The South African Bouquet 60x60cm SOLD Commission
Amazing wedding flowers inspired the owners to want an image of them.
However, I felt that what they really wanted was something that reflected the feeling of the day. Armed with an array of their flower pictures and backgrounds from family snaps, this memento of their wedding day offered the same light, setting and softness of flowers.
I actually painted two canvases - as I wasn't sure if a square one would work in the desired setting, but of course they picked and love the square one!
ENV 160 The South African Bouquet
50x70cm Acrylic on canvas unframed
This is the oblong version of the South African Bouquet, which is for sale at £600, if you like Africa and the "foreign" twist to the local February foliage and flowers.
ENV 149 Seedbeds 70x50cm £450
This image is linked to a larger commission for a "difficult space" above a fireplace, which was much larger. This is more dandelion seeded like than the final more abstract image.
Acrylic on canvas unframed
ENV 129 Misty Snowdrop Morning £450 80x60cm
This is just like the bed of snowdrops that come up every year. The magpie is a homage to Monet but it one was actually on the gate.
Acrylic on canvas unframed
ENV 130 Misty Snowdrop Morning 51x40.5cm. (20x16in) £400
If you lie on the ground snowdrops tower above you.
Acrylic on canvas unframed.
ENV 134 Small Misty Morning Snowdrops and Daffodils £ 450 51x41cm
This 3rd image of the snowdrops is small but has loads of colour from the cyclamen and diffs, The magpie is a homage to Monet, but it was actually on the gate.
Acrylic on canvas unframed.
ENV 132 Dandelions 40x40cm £225
A very bright and quite quick sketch of those very yellow dandelions.
Acrylic on canvas unframed.
ENV 110 Dandelion Head 40x40cm Acrylic on canvas unframed SOLD
ENV 111 Large Dandelion Head 100cm x 100xm £600 Acrylic on Canvas. This imposing image needs an empty wall as it is a signature piece.
ENV 131 Dandelion Seed 50x60cm £150
A little image that was inspired by blowing up the centre of a seeded and taking it even further into abstraction.
Acrylic on canvas unframed.
ENV 104 Commission - Bringing the Garden Inside 120x90cm Acrylic on canvas unframed SOLD
This commission was from a person giving themselves an 80th birthday present. He started wanting a very abstract block of colour picture of mostly large sunflowers, but it didn;t suit the desired location. This has flowers that are in his garden and house and on being offered a sliding scale of abstraction, it was clear that he wanted more than less represeation!
ENV 105 Yellow Poppy 80x80cm £450
This acrylic canvas was painted as a draft to show the commissioning person above that yellow would not fit his room! It was finished off after the garden flowers picture was sold and when displayed outside at events it has been known to attracts bees!
ENV 119 Flower Meadow by the Gallops I 60x60 £800 Acrylic on canvas unframed.
This is a really happy image of the bank of wildflowers that were planted next to the gallop in a nearby property. Over time, the range of flowers in this block of planting have changed, not it has mostly moon daisies. One day I will do a large image of these flowers blowing them into more abstract forms. I'd be happy to do that on spec if someone was seriously interested, but that would need a very large empty wall!
ENV 120 Flower Meadow by the Gallops Gallops II 60x50cm SOLD
Acrylic on canvas unframed. This smaller image than the one above was bought by a lady who said - I don't care where that is, I just have to put it in my dining room!
ENV 135 Moon Daisy Meadow by the Rides 20x16in (51x40.5cm) £400
Acrylic on canvas unframed. This is perhaps too small for so busy an image. Like its blue sister one day I will perhaps blow this up much bigger!
ENV121 Seedhead Inspired by Burling Gap 1mx1m £600 Acrylic on canvas unframed.
When you walk up to Birling Gap the cliff top is to high that if you lie on the ground the people just seem to be dropping down over the hill. at that low level flowers look huge against the background and I love that we can read images which in theory don't make a lot of sense - like this one!
ENV124 Flowers beside the Rides 2022 £400 acrylic on boxed canvas unframed
This is more of a traditional image of the buttercups, daisies and mallow coming up beside the ride.
ENV 127 Harvest 90x60cm £500 Acrylic on canvas unframed.
The big drums of straw leave monumental bundles on the cut wheat field and like so many artists I just had to paint them, but the bits left around the field really are interesting. The image was always going to be about them but of course, the entire picture had to be painted in such a way that they would slide into place without disrupting the flow of paint behind them!
ENV 125 The Hottest Day 2022 90x60cm £500 Acrylic on canvas unframed.
This is a day in that very hot summer. Actually flowers across the border that runs alongside the field were somewhat scattered, I used artisitic licence to pull them together but they were all there, not necessarily so closely position or in the same order!
ENV 126 Puff Ball Thistles (Echinops Bannaticus) 60x60cm £450
Acrylic on canvas unframed. This is one of my favourite border plants and it sits in front of a field, and at that time of year so many fields are full of golden corn, so I swapped the dried up grass for tall standing corn.
ENV 146 Seedhead Revisited 120x80cm SOLD Commission
Acrylic on canvas unframed. This couple had a great room with a space over its fireplace that needed a statement piece. following a chat on site the canvas became much larger than they originally intended and it was important to build in a dark red as that was highlighted around the house. The subject was choses and the style had to mix the more abstract desires of the wife with the detail liked by the husband. Quite a challenge, but all they said on seeing it in situ was "wow it is perfect".
ENV147 The Wysteria 80x80cm £700
Acrylic on canvas unframed. I love Nymans, and I love the counterplay of plants and dark and light. So it is obvious I love this image. But images need homes so I hope someone else loves this enough to buy it.
ENV148 Agapanthus (Inspired by visit to Architectural Plants) 80x80cm £700
