Fragile orange It is bitterly cold but

It is bitterly cold but the light is strong and I feel the anticipation of spring’s dawn

a mound of earth

Spanish Garden

An idea I was playing with whilst creating this painting was of Eve in the garden of Eden

Butterflies delight in their bounty

Fragile orange It is bitterly cold butFragile oil on canvas 101 x 76 x 1 cm. Fragile, I am whole, don't break me. Fragile is an experimental work. Some of my previous floral oil paintings have an abstract background which was filled around a Jackson Pollock inspired drip I was curious to see what effect I could achieve using this technique in a portrait. It brings a contemporary twist to the image and a suggestion that beauty is fragile and could be easily shattered Fragile. Fragile is