This painting is inspired by the Medieval Garden in Lassay Les Chateaux, Northern France. I visited this garden several times over the year and the final culmination of those visits is expressed here. The name Gone with The Wind comes from a poem by Ernest Dowson, and talks of the Cardoon, which is prevelant in the garden. This is the poem in question: I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lillies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion. Ernest Dowson. The diptych follows the rules of the Golden Section, which has been used for centuries in art, but also reflects the mysteries of nature.