The intoxicating delicacy of hydrangeas contrasted with the luminous pink of a rose and the robust golden shapes of autumnal leaves held me captive for weeks. Night flight speaks to the energy that moves and shapes realty, especially at night.

Oil on Linen

76cm x 65cm

£500

I approached a neighbour on my street, who had a rose tree in her front garden. I asked her if she could spare me some of her beautiful roses. They didn’t live long once cut, the petals quickly drooped and fell as I worked. I captured their parting moments. I painted this intense ground of two yellows with the the brevity and preciousness of life in mind, the tragedy of suicide and the sorrow of death.

60 x 60cm Oil Paint on Linen

Original Sold

Giclee prints available on request

Wishing for real roses to paint, I stepped out of my front door to find my neighbour, happy with her secateurs, cutting away at a gigantic rose bush that was apparently pulling the building down. I stood puzzling as she shoved the cuttings into a large plastic bag. “Are you throwing those away?” So there it was; a gift with some thorns with which I battled with two dogs on the bus to my studio. Juiced up and rearing to go I put on John Adams; Harmonielehre. So trumpets overhead came into this dimension.

Framed Oil on Board

50cm x 41cm

£450

Valentine’s Sunset

you know the kind, just dazzling

with the street lamps shining all white and innocent

against shimmering Prussian blue, twilight fading

into the passion of violet and red into orange

the colours of burning hearts

the colours of these roses.

Oil on Canvas Framed

80cm x 80cm

£500 unframed

(£600 framed)

PAinted in 1993 before children, when I lived in Hackney. This painting has always been the key to my work. Brought me back to painting flowers and keeps the materiality of paint, foremost in my mind.

These dry grasses blew into my hand one day as I walked to the studio. The light was bright and the way they witnessed the passing of the summer called out to be painted.

Oil On Board and Frame

36cm 46cm

£250 SOLD

I painted some stocks and peonies but I didn’t feel a need for a composition, I tried to find one and it didn’t appear, i added black and gold and started to play with colour, shapes and lines, edges are everywhere, I found a frame and before I knew it the paint had made itself vivid across the frame. A little gold moulding from the original frame gives tension and composure to the final piece.

Oil on Paper in Painted Frame

68cm x 53cm

£450 SOLD