Posts tagged ‘garden’
Gathering all the bits of work I want to be on this portfolio site I’m realising that I have a bit of an affinity for gardens.
Above: This is the sketch for this painting, the real thing is behind glass at it’s owners and too reflective to make a good image.
Above: This garden is lovely in all seasons but here in early autumn it’s particularly good.
Above: Hm… maybe washing lines are another developing theme? The owners of this painting were just about to move from this pretty old terraced house to somewhere grander and wanted a record of the children in the garden.
I painted this for myself after a lovely Croatian holiday with lovely people from Slovenia. The feeling of a luke warm shower in the garden as evening fell after the most boiling of days was amazing. I have a picture of this but I can’t find the original – which I’m sad about, I’d put it up in my bathroom if I could find it…
Now, I don’t claim to be a trompe l’oeil expert, but, on reflection, I’m pretty pleased with this. Positioned by the owners so that whilst sitting inside they can survey their small town garden, and, through a (fake) shady arbour, the vista of their (imaginary) estate beyond. The real fountain just in front of it was a touch of genius on their part too.
I’m quite cross with myself for not taking more photos of this closer up. It’s my favourite thing I’ve made I think, water lilies, frogs, fish, dragon flies, water plants…made for the garden of an Edwardian house, so in a nouveau style. It’s all there if you squint. Tsk! And the owners have moved house… 😦 Made with Glass and ceramic mosaic. Sigh.
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