Small Florals -- sale sale sale

Each flower has its own presence and personality... love this extravagant blossom in a humble little glass caper jar: diva, but a little scrappy.

 "Common Miracle"

12.5x17.5 cm (5x7")

oil on board 

£275 £200

(incudes shipping)

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Small Florals -- holiday sale!

 Bright pink flowers for dark winter days, good for gift giving and getting -- lasts forever, boosts your mood every day!

 

Bubblegum Bud

15x15cm (6x6"), oil on cradled board

£275 £200 

(includes shipping) 

 

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Small florals -- holiday sale!

What joy! I love the pink candy-stripe of the peony's outermost petal... isn't it gorgeous? 

 

"What Joy"

15x15cm, oil on board

£275 £200

(includes shipping)

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Small florals — sale!

You probably know someone who would love a little peony painting for Christmas — even if that someone is YOU. 

 

“Please and Thank You”

15x15cm (6x6”)

oil on cradled board 

£275 £200

(shipping included)

 

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Slow Motion

 

"Slow Motion"

21x30cm, oil on paper 

£250 £200 

(includes shipping)

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Flower Painting Workshop

Besotted by blossoms! I'll happily paint flowers all year long, but I truly love this season when they're all so fresh and sweet and feel like a reward for having successfully mucked through the winter. 

I've learned a lot about painting flowers over the past couple of years, and I'm excited to pass on my revelations: colour mixing, mark-making, paint layering, and building an interesting composition will all be part of my next day-long workshop at the studios. Come paint with me!

This 6-hour workshop will take an impressionistic approach to painting flowers, using colour and value to render our subject. I'll give a live demonstration in the morning, and set you to your own compositions in the afternoon. Experience helpful but not required! 

Full list of materials sent upon booking.

Saturday, 31 May, 2025

10am - 4pm

74-77 Magdalen Road, OX4 1RE

£75 

(limited parking available, please request)

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Dutch Treat

 I love black parrot tulips so much that I grew some of my own just so I could paint them. This background isn't William Morris, but is an anonymous fabric swatch I've had forever and have been too precious to use in actual sewing. So I thought I'd paint that, too! The little Dutch windmill vase I found at a charity shop and it felt like a perfect pairing.

 "Dutch Treat"

30x40cm, oil on canvas

£450

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Decoration

 More sweet cherry blossoms -- this time against a blue William Morris background. I'm fascinated by his story, he studied at Oxford and was quite the polymath: in addition to designing wallpaper and fabric, he was a social activist, a poet, and an aspiring architect. He insisted that art and well-designed interiors were not luxuries, which of course I appreciate. 

'Decoration'

8x10 inches, oil on canvas

£300

SOLD

One and the Same

I am playing around with flowers on patterned backgrounds, challenging myself to make a distinction between the real flower and the flower pattern while keeping both soft and impressionistic. 

These are cherry blossoms against a William Morris pattern, because his colours are absolute perfection:

"One and the Same"

8x10 inches, oil on canvas

£300

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Holiday Studio Sale

 In addition to the small florals, I have reduced the price on several still lifes and flowers on paper -- these are all original oil paintings, not prints, so get them while the getting's good! 

"I Danced at Your Wedding"

20x25cm (8x10")

oil on paper

sale ended

 

 

"Ankle Boots"

20x25cm (8x10")

oil on paper

 

 

"All Good Luck"

20x25cm (8x10")

oil on paper

 

 

 

"Flight of Fancy"

21x30cm

oil on paper

 

Small florals — more holiday sale!

Can’t stop with the pink peonies… utter perfection. 

 “Open Secret”

15x15cm (6x6”)

oil on board

£200 £120 (includes shipping)

SOLD

Tulpenmanie

I've always been curious about the tulip mania in The Netherlands during the 17th century: the dramatic tales of connoisseurs and collectors and cash-grabs, the spectacular boom and bust of the bulb bubble, and the fact that the beauty of the most prized variety, the Semper Augustus, was the result of a virus that eventually killed it. The possibility that some or all of these accounts are apocryphal only piques my interest all the more -- tulips bulbs were used as currency, and the stories about them grew and spread and mutated over hundreds of years.

Anyway, here's some gorgeous falling-down tulips I painted for my solo show at Rona Painting Gallery in Jericho this summer:

"Tulpenmanie"

 

50 x 40 cm

oil on canvas

2023

 

 

£1,400 (+ £50 for shipping)

 

 

 Click here to purchase through Rona Painting Gallery in Oxford

 

Stormy Spring

There's been snow in Oxford recently, but the daffodils are blooming defiantly. I like the stormy background combined with the cheerful blossoms in this one, and I like how I kept the petals soft and impressionistic. 

 "Stormy Spring"

21 x 30 cm, oil on paper

£250 (+ £15 shipping)

 

 

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Flight of Fancy

 This poppy was the palest pink you can imagine, and confounded my attempts to capture its delicacy. It's like a flighty fairy.

 

"Flight of Fancy"

21 x 30 cm, oil on paper

£250 (+ £15 shipping)

 

 

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Brighter Days

I tried to keep the brushstrokes loose and unfussy in this one, focusing more on the light and colour. Is there anything more lively than pink and green? A bright painting to keep you going through the winter.

 

"Brighter Days" 

30 x 42cm, oil on paper 

 

£350 (+ £20 shipping) 

 

 

 

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Heart on My Sleeve

The trick with peonies is NOT to try to render every last petal... but it's so easy to get lost in there. Dreamy.

 

"Heart on My Sleeve"

21 x 30 cm, oil on paper

£250 £175

SOLD

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Wishful Thinking

I bought a bouquet of peonies and tried to paint the buds before they exploded into blossom, but these pink petal explosions wait for NO ONE. This one had a particularly feisty personality, which came out in loose bright brushstrokes.

"Wishful Thinking"

20 x 20 cm, oil on canvas

 

£275 (+ £20 shipping)

 

 SOLD

 

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