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Egg tempera on panel, 20 x 26 cm, August, 2025 - from a quote by Katherine Mansfield.
Audrey Hepburn said, “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow;” while Rudyard Kipling Said ,“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.” I relate to both sentiments and this year when I was imagining our garden and the flowers and vegetables we would grow, I was as optimistic as ever.
Patrick and Hudson made me a propagator for one of my birthdays and it has begun lots of garden planting. This year was a huge disappointment. Everything sprouted but then what I can only imagine must have been a family of rodents arrived to make mayhem. Luckily, my sunflowers survived and Patrick and I planted them out. I like a mixture and it’s so exciting to see which ones arrive! This year there are five distinct faces that may make their way into paintings.
Just so you know, I replanted all those seedlings two more times, each time making the area around the propagator more like Fort Knox and each time the rodents wreaked havoc.
This painting might be a tribute to my lemony sunflower, a sun-loving heliotrope. Fu Xing, a bird of paradise and a regal kitty brings happiness and luck to the home while we begin the ritual of poaching pears.
Mansfield is referring to Van Gogh’s sunflowers as described in an article about Keifer and Van Gogh at the RA. (Message me and I’ll send you the link.)
Egg tempera on panel, 20 x 26 cm, August, 2025 - from a quote by Katherine Mansfield.
Audrey Hepburn said, “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow;” while Rudyard Kipling Said ,“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.” I relate to both sentiments and this year when I was imagining our garden and the flowers and vegetables we would grow, I was as optimistic as ever.
Patrick and Hudson made me a propagator for one of my birthdays and it has begun lots of garden planting. This year was a huge disappointment. Everything sprouted but then what I can only imagine must have been a family of rodents arrived to make mayhem. Luckily, my sunflowers survived and Patrick and I planted them out. I like a mixture and it’s so exciting to see which ones arrive! This year there are five distinct faces that may make their way into paintings.
Just so you know, I replanted all those seedlings two more times, each time making the area around the propagator more like Fort Knox and each time the rodents wreaked havoc.
This painting might be a tribute to my lemony sunflower, a sun-loving heliotrope. Fu Xing, a bird of paradise and a regal kitty brings happiness and luck to the home while we begin the ritual of poaching pears.
Mansfield is referring to Van Gogh’s sunflowers as described in an article about Keifer and Van Gogh at the RA. (Message me and I’ll send you the link.)