Honeysuckle

Limited Edition Print run of 20
Signed and numbered on the front
Print 40x28 cms
Unframed Giclée print, using pigment inks on high quality fine art archival paper

Every year I photograph these beautiful honeysuckle flowers, I am fascinated by the shapes the petals create. I think the petals and stamens combined look like insects settling on the flowers. I particularly like the flowers when they are grouped together, partially over and some still in full bloom. My art studio is based at home near Horsham, Sussex, so when I look out the kitchen window in early summer and see them in flower, I dash out and photograph them. As an artist my process is to draw and paint from life and then develop these drawings in my sketchbook into ideas for paintings, and I have been studying these flowers for several years. It was only this year I developed a final composition, in this painting I wanted to illuminate the colours and the beautiful shapes these flowers create.

I create the vibrant colours by building up very thin layers of oil paint so that the flowers glow. I have used yellow ochres to capture the flowers that are slowly fading, and the newer flowers are the vibrant magentas and pinks.