Kalanchoes

Botanical Art Paintings

Inspired by the colourful supermarket kalanchoe plants I like to keep on my windowsill, Kalanchoes is a collection of semi representational still life paintings. They depict the leggy fronds of one of these pot plants that, over the course of a year, grew in curious upward curving ways. The pot, inspired by the work of ceramicist Francesca Kaye, is my own creation made in the studio of friend and ceramicist Frances Mace. At the heart of the collection is a desire to explore relationships between rich layers of paint (applied using a number of controlled techniques) a myriad of hand drawn patterns and carefully considered colours.