Oil on canvas hand stretched over a wooden stretcher.
Framed in a wood floater framed (ready to hang)
30 x 40cm
2022
This series is Inspired by the wild compositions created by Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. I consider his gardens to be a living breathing painting. They are rich with surprising colours and shapes overlapping and enhancing each other. I could stare at the year round, ever changing beauty of his gardens forever, never becoming bored. I became obsessed with trying to translate the organic, wild beauty of of his, and many other of my favourite gardens into paint. I worked to figure out how to best capture the ephemeral magic of plants on canvas. I discovered that the paintings turned out best when I tried not to overthink each brush stroke or force perfection. I get into the flow and allow surprises to happen, in hopes that each painting in this series can achieve the same spontaneous feel of living nature.
Oil on canvas hand stretched over a wooden stretcher.
Framed in a wood floater framed (ready to hang)
30 x 40cm
2022
This series is Inspired by the wild compositions created by Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. I consider his gardens to be a living breathing painting. They are rich with surprising colours and shapes overlapping and enhancing each other. I could stare at the year round, ever changing beauty of his gardens forever, never becoming bored. I became obsessed with trying to translate the organic, wild beauty of of his, and many other of my favourite gardens into paint. I worked to figure out how to best capture the ephemeral magic of plants on canvas. I discovered that the paintings turned out best when I tried not to overthink each brush stroke or force perfection. I get into the flow and allow surprises to happen, in hopes that each painting in this series can achieve the same spontaneous feel of living nature.