SERIES: SWIMMING WITH SAFFRON
I have always loved the brilliant of yellow fields where I live in Kent, brushing the landscape with oceans of vivid colour. It lifts my heart and soul.
I imagined swimming through them, which in 2007 triggered a impromptu photoshoot. I was inspired by the look and feel of the Busby Berkeley films in Technicolor, so I took some colourful 1950’s bikini, tops and caps and on a warmish day went out with a friend and my camera. In the famous film ‘The Gang’s All Here’ the girls wore fruit hats, back in the studio, I swapped fruit for oversized flowers from my photograpy collection, of which I have a lot!
“Scarlet Miranda”
Digital Painting | 36″ x 24″
Open Edition Prints
A stark contrast of the brilliant yellow fields against a Japanese red sunset and Scarlet Miranda about to dance on to the stage.
Prints are available on request, please contact me for a price. The paintings look their best printed on a stretched canvas, which can then be framed (I can organise this as well). However if you would like it printed smaller 30″ x 20″ | 24″ x 16″ |18″ x 12″ | 12″ x 8″ or on a German Etching Paper please get in touch.
“Anemone’s Blue”
Digital Painting | 24″ x 36″
Open Edition Prints
As the sky turns to midnight blue the stars catch the light like diamonds. Anemone dances through the yellow waves wearing a mermaid’s scales shimmering top.
Prints are available on request, please contact me for a price based on the size required. Like it framed as well – I can also help with that.
“Poppy Salute”
Digital Painting | 24″ x 36″
Open Edition Prints
Looking out across the saffron waves I spot a ship “Ahoy there, permission to come aboard?”
Prints are available on request, please contact me for a price based on the size required. Like it framed as well – I can also help with that.
“Dandy Lion”
Digital Painting | 36″ x 24″
Open Edition Prints
The inspiration for this painting came from a scene in the Busby Berkeley film “The Gang’s All Here”, dozens of scantily clad women handling very large bananas dance in sequence. I owned this long yellow coat and took it just in case of inclement weather. Arching back at a jaunty angle, made the composition.
Prints are available on request, please contact me for a price based on the size required. Like it framed as well – I can also help with that.
“Saffron Diving”
Digital Painting | 24″ x 36″
Open Edition Prints
The inspiration for this painting is based on the pose of the Rolls Royce “Spirit of Ecstasy” figurine and my love of diving. I’ve always been drawn to the water and as a child used to go to a swimming club, which led to diving lessons.
Why do I use myself in my paintings?
Prints are available on request, please contact me for a price based on the size required. Like it framed as well – I can also help with that.
