Delphiniums are showy, spiky blooms on a tall, sometimes towering stem. These beautiful slightly old fashioned cottage garden flowers bring unrivalled height and colour to summer gardens with their showy spikes of vibrant flowers. The most common colours are shades of blue or purple which are filling this bucket. Initially I applied a gel medium…
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The Seductive Sweetpea
Sweetpeas are gorgeous flowers, obligingly abundant, and wonderfully fragrant with the most seductive scent. Some are more acutely fragrant than others with an intense, rich perfume. Traditionally, it’s the heirloom Grandiflora-type sweet peas that have been grown for their fragrance. If one had to capture the airy sweetness of the sweet peas, I think it would smell somewhere between orange blossom and…
pink delft and luscious dahlias
Dahlias never fail to dazzle with their distinctive colours, smell, and bright fluffy opulent blooms.
Periwinkle blue
Periwinkle blue is never one colour. It has such a variety in the blues and mauves and makes a beautiful ground cover that can flower throughout the year. I seem to be enjoying blues in flowers at the moment and all the varieties of blue on the colour scale from mauve, to cornflower blue, to…
You can never have enough flowers in a bucket
I think it is blatantly obvious I love painting flowers. In this bucket I placed the softest of pink blush roses, and in contrast to the soft tones of the roses I painted purple petunias, and periwinkles all the while exploring techniques for using the palette knife. 40 cm X 40 cm X 4 cm,…
A beautiful summers day
I often paint sunflowers. Their bright happy faces are irresistible and their bright yellow petals are the perfect shape for a palette knife to smear the bright yellow paint on in a happy frame around the burnt umber, almost black centres. Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty and longevity. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the…
Summer Christmas flowers
The hydrangea represents gratitude, grace and beauty. It also radiates abundance because of the lavish number of flowers and the generous round shape. Its colours symbolise love, harmony and peace. Known for their beautiful blooms and leafy foliage, hydrangeas are the epitome of summer. Growing up we lived in Newlands, and my Mom had the most incredible hydrangeas growing down the whole…
Flowers by the bucket
This is a large painting. 100 cm X 100 cm X 4 cm, acrylic on canvas mounted on a large square board. This painting was an experiment of techniques on how to create different types of flowers. I rather like how the bucket came out. I do think the background and the flowers are a…
Bowl of flowers
Not only are flowers beautiful additions to our homes, weddings and special events, they also have different meanings attached to them. Flower language – or floriography – is the art of flower symbolism, which varies depending on the type and colour of the flower. I love flowers, I love them in the garden, and especially in…
Moroccan pots masquerading as ginger jars
As an artist I have received some unusual commissions, my children being probably the main source of my more bizarre commissions. I have painted cupcakes for my daughter, Knights and Saracens on my son’s wall, headboards, and I think even a spaceship from my sons days playing Eve Online. Besides my children’s misuse of their…
A lilac cascade
This particular painting is a multi layered canvas with layers of mixed medium being applied before i began painting. In the above image you can see the modelling paste that had been smeared on with a broad palette knife. This has dried a white colour and almost sits into the canvas. The yellowish gel is…
Cosmos fields
Before we were married Phil and I drove up to St Lucia (in KZN) from Cape Town over the Easter Weekend in April of 1989. We drove through the Free State and it was one of those unforgettable experiences that will remain forever etched in my mind. All I could see was sandstone mountains, flaming…
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