Oil, emulsion and thread on canvas.

1×1.7m

£8,000

The second panel from the Garden Pentaptych, featuring strawberries, roses and decaying sunflower heads.

Formerly the 1.7x5m painting which provided the background for the photographic portraits of academicians made during the Court Painter Residency at the Royal West of England Academy of Art.

Now cut into five separate canvases, reworked as a pentaptych [pen-tap-tick] and updated with a sunken central figure in a frame. Each panel represents both the constant growing and dying flora (plants and flowers) and the theatre of fauna (animals) within a garden. When fully assembled it is an altarpiece to what one might call ‘gardening as method’.