Scholar of Flowers and Fruit
£400.00
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egg tempera on panel, 25 x 24 cm, September 2023, framed free floating, 2023.
‘The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.’
(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
As summer fades, before wind and rain begin to batter the flowers in our gardens, I pick a bouquet. What would the scholar make of my assemblage? How would she view the tumble of grapes, the singular lime, the elderly pomegranate, the profusion of zinnias and asters with a ghost of scabiosa?
As I paint, I imagine the mindset of the scholar and every colour laid next to every other colour becomes a delight.