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Polesden Lacey (28 x 30 in). A garden straight out

Polesden Lacey (28 x 30 in). A garden straight out of an early 20th century novel. The house a spreading blend of Georgian and Edwardian, the long English garden sitting in the hilly Surrey landscape, with that perfect near distance view, and the gentle enfilade of its garden rooms, culminating in the wild orchard summerhouse. The painting comes from 2006.

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Red Yellow (24 x 24 in). The sun is shining in the

Red Yellow (24 x 24 in). The sun is shining in the sky - and colour is coming! Here’s a Square Dancing painting to start us off for the bright new week!

Sissinghurst (24 x 30 in). What more influential o

Sissinghurst (24 x 30 in). What more influential or more famous garden is there? Those garden rooms, the old roses, the White Garden, those venerable gurus. What I find so idiosyncratic about Sissinghurst is its sheer energy, the idea that profusion can be a glorious goal in itself (Vita Sackville-West had 194 rose varieties at one time), and that you are not only assailed by the planting but by the ardour of it too.

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Square Dancing - Green (35 x 35 in). Something for

Square Dancing - Green (35 x 35 in). Something for a Spring day. One of the Square Dancing paintings from a wee while ago, when I was exploring mark making in its most basic form, and enjoying the knee-jerk qualities of colour. (More of these on the website.)

Great Dixter (24 x 30 in). I can’t think of a ga

Great Dixter (24 x 30 in). I can’t think of a garden that gives me greater pleasure than Great Dixter. It’s ancestry in the Arts and Crafts era - and Lutyens’ participation - are central to the whole experience, and yet so too is the whole span of its history, of Christopher Lloyd’s creativity, his amazing choices, the role of colour, and the ascending profusion of nature.

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South to Spyway, Green (24 x 30 in). Looking down

South to Spyway, Green (24 x 30 in). Looking down from Eggardon Hill, on one of my almost daily walks there. These ancient hill forts have such profound layers of history - of the occupation, use and actual sculpting of the land - they acquire resonances that are on the edge of perception, beauties that are off the map.

South from Eggardon (28 x 28 in). Here’s a bit o

South from Eggardon (28 x 28 in). Here’s a bit of Springtime. In fact this is the first painting I did after moving to Dorset in 2008 - a view from Eggardon Hill looking towards the sea, sheep dotted on the fields. It was a sort of knee-jerk response to the land - to the joy of being in such a place and to the arrival of Spring.

Hestercombe (18 x 24 in). The sheer presence of Lu

Hestercombe (18 x 24 in). The sheer presence of Lutyens and Jekyll’s ‘Great Plat’ at Hestercombe is astounding. As formal design, as theatre, as entertainment - as you follow its paths, pergolas and rills, experiencing the colours, textures and lines. There’s also the second phase of their work there - the Orangery to the east, the Dutch garden. It shows just how animated garden design was in the first decade of the 20th century.

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Three Towers - Two (39 x 47 in). Part of doing the

Three Towers - Two (39 x 47 in). Part of doing the stone towers pictures was about the temptation to invest inanimate objects with life stories. These three here look like they’ve known each other a while, and get on like family. Or is the middle one a prisoner? I wanted a theme that celebrated our wilful instinct for finding ideas and references in things. Something that courses through art.

Tintinhull (18 x 24 in). I am beginning to look at

Tintinhull (18 x 24 in). I am beginning to look at gardens - as Spring is round the corner. This is a response to the wonderful garden at Tintinhull House, laid out into ‘rooms’ by Phyllis Reiss in the 1930s and 40s, and then developed by Penelope Hobhouse when she lived there in the 1980s and 90s.

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