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Livia’s Garden was made in response to my memories of seeing the beautiful painted gardens in Livia’s Villa, Rome. The paintings are of imagined gardens. 

I wanted to convey the sense of delight of being in a garden, which can be many things to different people. Gardens can offer a space of joy, fun, peace, reflection and sometimes solace. I use gesture and immediacy to convey transience and fragility of the world we inhabit.


Glow (private collection) Upstream 35x39 cm

#3 (private collection)

#4 35x39cm Ophelia 35x39cm #5 35x39cm


“A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul” – Saadi

#2 46x62 cm
Pool 1 (private collection) Border (private collection) Spray 37x37cm

“Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ' A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time – when things get tough, tend to the garden in your mind.” – Lao Tzu

#1 60x72cm
May 67x76cm Pool 2 39x35cm Glade 76x70cm
Flurry 73x76cm
Stream 25x24cm Bloom (private collection)

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stopped the machine of ‘thinking’, ‘enjoying’ and what they call ‘living’ I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.” – Jack Kerouac

Breeze nfs

Ridge 75x70cm Zephyr 76x73cm