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To the meadow where a family of four was, for a time, complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not simply paintings of flowers and fields. They are portraits of memory — of the people who shaped me, the places that held us, and the ordinary afternoons that turned out to be extraordinary all along.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poppies","title":"Poppies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a kind of knowledge that lives only in the hands of a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy mother taught my sister and me to make little dolls from poppy flowers — a game that required patience, a careful hand, and the particular expertise of knowing which buds were just about to open, because those made the very best dolls. We spent whole afternoons crouched in the garden, searching through the grass at ground level, the world reduced to stems and petals and the extraordinary architecture of a flower seen from below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting was made in the depths of winter, in a freezing studio, from the warmth of that memory. It is poppies as a child sees them — close, luminous, filling the entire field of vision. Four or five open blooms among the buds, with soft purple flowers moving through the composition like a half-remembered dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo paint it was to be warm again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e W: 76.2cm x H: 76.2cm (30 x 30 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal work. One of six paintings in the Meadows collection. 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Ladybirds move quietly through the stems. Smaller butterflies dissolve into the luminous distance between the trees. Every visit to this painting finds something new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work was painted from childhood memories of running through meadows in search of insects — the particular joy of a child who has learned that the most extraordinary things are hidden in the most ordinary places. Before listing it, I showed it to my own children and asked them to find everything inside it. They didn’t want to stop looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting would be especially beautiful in any space where children spend time — a family home, a boutique hotel, a clinic, or an educational setting. Commission enquiries are warmly welcomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e W: 76.2cm x H: 121.9cm (30 x 48 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal work. One of six paintings in the Meadows collection. 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The light came through the petals in a way that was almost unbearable in its beauty — translucent, warm, transforming something ordinary into stained glass. And all around, the scent of flowers and grass and soil rose up in that particular combination that is less a smell than a sensation, less a sensation than a memory waiting to be made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy mother taught us which plants could be eaten and which should be left alone. She taught us to make dolls from flowers and wreaths for our hair. She gave us the meadow as a classroom, and we graduated in wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis smaller work carries more texture than the others in the collection — the paint itself becomes part of the light, part of the feeling. 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