This painting is inspired by my latest garden series, where I visit a garden and make a response to it in my sketch book, before bringing those sketches, along with photographs, back to my studio to work on the final piece on canvas. It creates a final painting that is as much about memory, atmosphere and feeling as it is about observation. I was delivering an online course of Painting The Summer Landscape and spent the early summer seeking out sunflowers and other images of summer for the course. I was particularly drawn to the red sunflowers.

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