Oil, emulsion, thread and felt tip on wood and canvas.

1.7x1m

Formerly the 5m long 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, reworked as a pentaptych.

Each panel represents the cycle of growing and dying flora (plants and flowers) and the theatre of fauna (animals) within a garden, accompanied by a floating portrait. When fully assembled it is an altarpiece to what one might call ‘gardening as method’.