Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

These lovely flowers pop up in my front garden bed in spring each year. Apart from the glorious scent, they have a lovely compact nature which allows them to present with very distinct sections of light and shade. I enjoy this aspect about them as it offers a very delicate and complex structure to present with quite defined, bold shapes. The very dark vase was always going a to be a challenge to paint to give it presence without looking like a dense shadow. I used transparent paint on the light side of the vase which has given it a very pleasing glow and shape.