Flowers remain a passion as do blue and white jugs, ginger jars and temple jars.  This beautiful blue and white jug was begging for an arrangement of Dutch Irises.

Paint was also thickly applied with various shaped palette knives to create a loose impression of what I was seeing before me.

Much like a flower arrangement i began with the leaves first before painting the irises.

The iris flowers are slashes of violets, purples, and periwinkle blue with some white and cadmium yellow and pyrole orange to hint at the centre of the iris.

Like with so many flower arrangements there are always petals that fall as the flower comes to the end…