Recent Paintings
Let’s start with something cheerful. Feeling a bit low that spring, I took inspiration from Delacroix. On a visit to his house in Paris one year, I saw an amazing exhibition of his flower paintings which were such a contrast to his better-known work. I don’t know how he tackled his work, but I had a go in the manner of the Dutch masters, with just one or two flowers at a time and sometimes the same flower such as the tulip appeared twice.
It was such fun that I might have another go at painting flowers, probably in that low period before the Spring Equinox.