Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This oil painting is from my 'Intersect' Still life series; a personal project I have been chipping away at and evolving in the background for a couple of years now. I work on this series when I need to take a break from painting birds or feel like switching up my medium from watercolour to oil paint.

About the Intersect series: Still life is one of my favourite genres, yet these flowers in vases are clearly not painted from life. They are informed by synthetic cubist ideals and early pop art, and are unconcerned with form or perspective. Pictorial flatness is a naturally occurring theme in my work after many years designing logos and icons for single colour output, and the restraints of a long print design career have unlocked a deep appreciation and respect for the pleasure of applying the paint itself.

The works in this series explore both painterly and linear techniques, and are characterised by a central line through the composition that serves as the water line, refraction and intersect between the background, vase and surface. This technique somewhat mimics the imaginary grid structure I would use to set type and images in a traditional page layout.