Blooms

I am drawn less to botanical description than to the particular character and energy of each bloom. Flowers offer an extraordinary opportunity to explore colour, shape, rhythm and the movement of paint itself. My iris paintings grew in part from my admiration for the flower paintings of Cedric Morris, although my own approach has become increasingly expressive, with bolder gestures, generous brushwork and a love of strong, sometimes unexpected colour. These are subjects I return to rather than exhaust. Each year brings another flowering, another encounter, another reason to begin again.