Evaporated garden, powdered sky 2014

Evaporated garden, powdered sky 2014 is an immersive painting inspired by Rosslynd Piggott’s time in the Giardino di Ninfa (Garden of Ninfa), south of Rome in central Italy. Ninfa is famous for its romantic ruins and greenery that has been tended over centuries. The artist explains the composition in these terms:

I do not wish to describe pictorially either site or event. I wished to conjure a bodily space that is without boundary, where the viewer may fuse with flower particle space, and vice versa – like a type of breathing. This is a silent space, where senses may be heightened. The bars of colour refer to flowers that, following a disaster, have become sediment, buried deep under dark earth . . . The colours were devised from both visual and scent keys of real flowers. Jasmine, for instance, may be represented by the graduating magenta of the bud and a star-bright white, but also crisp citron and the acidic leaf green of its scent.