FIRST THERE WAS AN ORANGE ROSE

The inspiration for my painting of a pastel garden is my love of gardens in general, be they botanic gardens, a neighbourhood garden, or my own back garden.
I also love to work with colour, and was enjoying the use of pastel colours in this painting.
Flowers are wonderful to paint, even if they are imaginary. They provide delicious colours, and wonderful organic shapes and lines.
The origin of my painting was a mono print from a paint palette - just splotches of colour left at the end of a painting day.
One splotch looked like an orange rose, so I went from there.

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AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
I am an Australian artist working in Adelaide, South Australia. I paint mostly in oil, but occasionally use acrylic paints. Landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, flower paintings and abstract paintings are included in my repertoire of work.

INSPIRATION FOR MY ART
As an Australian artist, my inspiration comes from whatever is around me at a particular time. As an example, following a recent trip to the mid north of South Australia, I produced a series of landscape paintings, which include the beautiful Eucalyptus trees and flowers from local gardens.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I have always loved colour. My paintings as a child were mostly large areas of very, very loud colour.
I paint because I love to. Taking delight in seeing what emerges from the canvas, and I still love colour.
Painting with other artists is a time to spend time with other human beings, without having to talk.
Painting alone is a special time to forget everything else, to get lost in the process of creativity, of colour and line, and light and dark.
During different stages of life I have made more time for painting. Now is one special time in my life when I can devote lots of time to painting.