Gold Flower of Movement

Flower heads with simply repeated plant forms, capture the richness and versatility of the Papaver somniferum plant.

With an interest in elevating the everyday overlooked plant Papaver somniferum that is all around us and in turn monumentalising their presence. I have explored and worked with plants in their natural forms, focusing on their perfected life cycle, and vital aesthetic, nutritional and medicinal roles. Growing and nurturing the plant varieties and painting them from life, deepening my connection with the subjects. This piece is part of a collection, the works are created in different mediums of art combining the traditional drawn, painted, and collaged to contemporary digital manipulation to create novel discovered art. The outcome expands the plant's form and shape into abstracted floral pieces manifesting new realities.