Orange palm

Orange palm

Orange palm was made covertly: during a snowy day in the humidity of the vast tropical Victorian green house at Kew Gardens  – transitioning from a bitter zero degrees in london to 40 degrees inside the greenhouse it was as if we had stepped into another world: transported to the lush jungle canopy of past equatorial field expeditions. This our first in a series of four large palm painting, are the first that we’re created under the relative  limitation of  ‘Field conditions’ and then finished back in the studio…

Orange palm

Orange palm

Kew. £12,000

Size: 5x4 ft

Acrylic and ink on 300g acid free paper