Small waterlilies 8 Mixed media original blue shutters and a polka

blue shutters and a polka dot cloth have all appeared in many of my works however its probably the newcomer - a bird in a cage - who steals the show

The 'cheeky’ face on the mug in this little arrangement seems to affect everything else in the painting

where the building seems to rise out of the trees as much from imagination as from stone

Built in the mid-15th century

but it still has a habit of feeling different each time I come back to it

Small waterlilies 8 Mixed media original blue shutters and a polka10 x 10 cm Ah Giverny a place I've painted almost as much as Monet himself! Standing before Monets vast panoramic canvases at Tate Britain and MoMA in New York became a lasting source of inspiration for my waterlilies paintings over the years. Later, visiting the gardens at Giverny was everything I could've hoped for and offered direct and personal inspiration for the works that followed