This painting is one of three I’m submitting Poppy, Rose and Lily. Poppy was the very first painting I worked on over lockdown, so is a special painting to me for that reason.
After many years commissioning and advising photographers and illustrators with their work as part of my my job, Lockdown kick started my passion for painting flowers…
It’s been a journey picking up the paintbrush again, and being in a much different world now to when I first came to London as a budding illustrator/designer many years ago, I lost my way with painting, though the necessity of work but thrived in a creative industry and helping other artists.
The slow down of lockdown, spending time in my garden and remembering my love for Georgia O Keefe (who inspired me as a schoolgirl to take up art in the first place) has led to my rediscovery of art and colour and to set up a business to sell prints of my paintings. I haven’t looked back since.