Banana Painting Size:36"x24" sun-drenched intensity

sun-drenched intensity

The theme is cosmic wonder and the smallness of our own place within it

Set it on a hallway console or above a breakfast table to carry a breath of the allotment indoors

The mood is hushed and faintly magical

salt air and the unhurried rhythm of a shore left to itself

Banana Painting Size:36"x24" sun-drenched intensityTwo ripe bananas rest together at the heart of this quietly realistic study, their golden skins freckled with brown and tipped by a fresh green stem. They sit on a weathered, mottled ground of taupe, ochre and soft grey, the textured surface giving the scene an aged, almost fresco like character. Light falls gently from the side, modelling the curve of each fruit and casting a soft shadow beneath. There is something honest and grounding in this