Looking Up to the Corncockles

Oil on Board
40 x 125 cms, 15.75 x 49 inches approx Unframed, Ready to hang,
Original painting, signed on reverse

I grow very few annuals, I prefer to grow perennials which need a lot less tending as they just come back year after year. But I must grow cornflowers and corncockles every year because I just love them. Of course, once you have grown them once or twice, they seed themselves everywhere, much to my delight, as I treat these stray flowers little happy surprises! These two flowers also last all season, it is only the first frost that finally kills them. I grow them at the very end of the garden and l like to see them wave their heads in the breeze and I have tried to capture this movement in this painting. They are set against a backdrop of a late summer storm clouds that have been bubbling up after a long warm summers day.