Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

This painting is inspired by the fabulous Guerrilla gardens that people have planted on the footpaths in my local area. I am painting intuitively here, meaning I have no fixed plans when I start, but am rather more interested in expressive, painterly marks and allowing myself to enter a flow state and be lead by the painting.

Plants and botanical forms have long been a source of inspiration to me, from my beginnings as a textile designer in the 90s through to my current painting practice. I find purpose and meaning identifying, sniffing, touching and sometimes (if it’s hanging over a fence and it’s dark) swiping a sprig for further investigation back in the studio. I like to draw and paint from observation first to acquaint myself with my specimen, and then work purely from memory and imagination, slowly paring back detail with each incarnation until I am relying purely on intuition and imagination and am no longer concerned with accurately representing my subject.

This bright multi layered, textural painting would make a fantastic statement on the wall of your home.