Every year I promise myself that I will paint the snowdrops in my garden..et Voila!

This large painting has taken several months to finish.
The Oxford Botanic Garden contains a wonderful glasshouse with large leaved waterlilies; the reflections on the water of the complex roof mean that when looking at the plants you are made aware of the abstract elements which link with the figurative plants.

This year the peonies were spectacular.
The cold weather was something of a disincentive to sit outside painting, but they were so beautiful, it was worth it.

The 2021 abundance of rain produced a marvellous crop of Spencer scented sweet peas.

from the series of sunflower images, this sunflower had a huge and lovely head…worthy of visual capture.

A marvellous growing period in 2021 due to all the rain produced a glorious crop of flowers against a green shed.

Having grown many magnificent sunflowers this year, I decided, rather late in the season to record them.
I have saved seed from other blooms so that I can repeat the process next year.

I painted this subject last year, from seeds for these nasturtiums given to me, and the resultant flowers were so lovely that I saved the seed and planted them again this year.
This version is much larger, so the flowers are three times actual size and therefore more dynamic.

This is a painting of our gardeners’ dog, Marley, who died last February.
He was so loved by Mike, his owner.
I don’t usually paint dogs, but I enjoyed doing this.

Early in the lockdown the first spring flowers came out.
I had been having pottery lessons in the Autumn and this small dark blue gleaze pot was one of the smaller results, just right for short stemmed flowers.

Further to the lockdown paintings in the garden, from our patio table we had a view with a variety of tulips in the forgeground to the trees in the distance.
To a certain extent this painting is quite saccharine in content…but the flowers are lovely anyway.

During the 2020 lockdown I have been able to appreciate my garden as never before.
These parrot tulips were just at their best and I painted them all in one day.

This small painting was made because I was entranced by the vibrant colour of these flowers and the way that the stems formed a pattern.

A local house has these wonderful gnarled trees, which twine together. They have ivy and lichen on the branches and trunk and in April are full of blossom.

This collagraph is a version of a painting which I made of a lesser spotted woodpecker.

This painting …4ft x 4ft has been carried out over two years. I had to wait for the season to come round again to complete the background and the bluebells.
Bere Forest , in Hampshire is a wonderful piece of ancient woodland and every year the bluebells are a delight to all the senses.

This mixed media print ( collagraph and lino cut ) is a way into making use of the many plant drawings made over the years.

This gouache painting is based on a shelf of sample flowers from a walled garden in Shropshire.

This lino cut is based on a painting which I made showing how a bud matures from tightly furled to fully resolved.
The painting is a lot softer than this graphic image.

In the Summer of 2018, the heat during the day was so great that in order to paint these lovely plants growing in my garden I had to get up at 5.00 a.m. and worked until 9.00 a.m after which the temperature was too much for painting.
Serendipity ensured that these plans grew so well together.

Every year I grow lilies in my garden. This year I grew some very large ones which reached over five feet tall, due to the 2018 hot Summer. As it was too hot to paint after 9.00 a.m, I had to get up at 5.00 a.m to be able to carry out this painting.

Planted in 2017 it has been a long wait to see the glorious results which complement the green of the shed .

These magnificent architectural plants grow by one of the tributaries of the River Test which runs through the glorious gardens of The Island, Greatbridge near Romsey, Hampshire

In the Autumn, the strong winds blow down twigs which are covered with these tendril covered lichens.

While watching the Rio Olympics, a crash against the window was the result of this lovely young thrush with glorious soft plumage and beautiful markings coming to a needless end.

This robin was one of the 2016 brood which did not make it.

These are the 2016 lilies in the garden, which link to those painted from previous years. The short window of opportunity between bud, blossom and the dropping of petals is about one week, so there was little room for contemplation, just painting.

This is a painting carried out over several weeks as the sticky bud developed into the final flower

During the winter, our delivery of logs for the fire developed these wonderful decorations.

Inspired by the paintings of Ambrosius Boschaert and other 17th c Dutch cabinet painters, I decided to make the most of the tulips in my garden and to combine them into a fantasy painting in the manner of the Dutch.

The cuckoo also imitates the flight and breast feathers of the Sparrowhawk, here shown.

This blue tit lasted out of the nest only a few hours. It failed to make to final flight to the nearby oak tree. Poor lovely bird, now buried under the plum tree.

This is a second painting of the lovely woodpecker with his beautiful plumage.

This lovely woodpecker flew into my studio. I am glad to report that a new one now comes to feed in the garden.

This is part of the series of four which deals with issues of antiquity; mares tails are ancient plant forms which date from the time of the dinosaurs.

By contrast, Arabella Lennox-Boyd , a silkscreen print, is a reflection of this garden designer’s use of geometry and formally organised planting.

The image, Carol Klein, is a lino cut in response to the theme of Energetic Women, the Catalyst theme for 2011, in which I had decided to concentrate upon the female gardener as playing an important role in current and past society.

This is a straight painting from plants in the garden in early spring

This painting is a straight observational work based on natural patterns

This is a further extension to the garden series of paintings from 2013 – 2015

This commissioned piece was produced for the wedding of Lucy Jessop and Aidan Joyce in 2012

My neighbour grew these magnificent thistles. Who could resist them?

This commissioned work was subsequent to the Three Thistles painting of the previous year

This painting is based on information about plants which have curative as well as damaging properties