For the exhibition ‘Ways of Seeing’ I will be launching a selection of work from my new series of ‘Scabiosa’ panels.

“This series of paintings on cradled wooden panels with the use of the gold as an enduring nod to the sacred spaces and naivety of medieval flower paintings,  are inspired by looking up through the stems of giant scabious – their buds, flowers and the seed heads with one or two petals holding on.  Sometimes uplifting and sometimes with a hint of melancholy but always with inherent natural beauty - the imperfect surface layers of acrylic paint added, built up, scratched back and textured to reveal what is underneath. The spaces between the stems form a significant movement across the panels and are an important part of each piece. The Victorian language of flowers associates scabious with ‘unfortunate love’ which maybe also adds a little to their mystery”