This painting is part of my 2025 Garden series where I visited several public gardens across the UK and Northern France and made work in response to the experience of being in the garden. I used a patterend underpainting, in this case inspired from the North Window in Chartres Cathedral as a way of making sense of the magical beauty of the natural world. Pattern and geometry, especially sacred geometry is the way that I try to convey the natural world and how its beauty is more than a purely visual experience. The garden which inspired this particular painting is Gunby House and Gardens in Lincolnshire and the flower bed was full of the beautifully pretty and colourful Antirrhinums - or Snapdragons!

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