High Quality Giclée prints printed on museum quality Fine Art Paper from Arches using Epsom’s Ultra Chrome HD Pigment inks. The prints are made on demand, which means that when you order, it takes a few days for the print to be made, and then it is sent to you. Choose the size of the print you would like from the dropdown menu. The relevant price will then appear at the top of the product selection. See below for more details about the sizes and how they are delivered to you.

Mini/Gift size prints are Open Edition (meaning they are not numbered). The image measure 5 x 7 inches approximately and it comes in a 10 x 8 inch mount with backing in a cellophane sleeve. They are signed and titled on the front with pencil by the artist, (me).

Medium size print are a limited edition of 200 and the image size measures 7 x 10 inches approximately. It comes in a 12 x 16 inch mount with backing board and cellophane envelope. These prints are numbered, titled and signed on the front by yours truly.  

Large size Print are a limited edition of 100 and measure 10 x 14 inches. This size comes rolled in a tube as it is a safer way to travel. It comes numbered, titled, and signed by the artist on the front of the work.

Poster Size Print These prints are the exact same sizes as the original paintings. This size comes rolled in a tube as it is a safer way to travel. It comes numbered, titled, and signed by the artist on the front of the work.

The Original Painting may be still for sale and can be ordered directly through me on the CONTACT page. All paintings are done on Saunders Waterford Paper with Winsor and Newtown Artist Watercolours and in some cases I’ve added some lace paper collage and gold ink.

“Twilight” Homage to John Singer Sargent’s “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” 1885-86

In a letter dated 10th September 1885 to his colleague, Edwin Russell, Sargent wrote,

“I am trying to paint a charming thing I saw the other evening. Two little girls in a garden at dark, lighting paper lanterns hung among the flowers from rose-tree to rose-tree. I shall be a long time about it if I don’t give up in despair, and at any rate two months longer in England”.

Indeed, it took Sargent nearly two years before “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” was finished due to the limited window of twilight time that was available to him in the garden of a friend’s house in Broadway, Worcestershire, England. The finished piece measures 7 x 5 feet, painted entirely en plein air.  Here Sargent captures the soft light and faery-like atmosphere of his two young models, Dolly and ‘Polly’ Barnard in the Impressionist style.

I’ve always loved this painting because of the magical quality it evokes, especially in the muted colour scheme of soft mauves and oranges. In painting “Twilight”, my homage to Sargent, I was concerned with trying to capture the nostalgia of the past; of my own childhood memories of playing out in the twilight of the long summer evenings; of the memories of my daughters, Jennie and Annie when they were that age; and of old photos I have of my grandmother wearing a similar white pinafore to the girls in Sargent’s painting.

As I couldn’t reconstruct my scene to paint it en plein air as Sargent had done, I resolved to set the scene as a still life, including the predominant flowers of lilies and roses, my grandmother’s old china tea cup and a ‘reproduction’ of the painting propped up in the arrangement, depicting images of my own children.

The cameo of Sargent’s masterpiece is painted in a loose watercolour style, to suggest a sketch, hastily done, of a fleeting moment in time. The romantic and luxuriant depictions of flowers in the still life are interspersed with torn pieces from Sargent’s many letters and painting notes. I wanted to create an ‘old fashioned’ atmosphere, cluttered with sentimental ornaments, imagining the heady scent of the profusion of flowers in Sargent’s painting. To counter balance the old, I set some collaged photos of roses into the scene, (printed on mulberry tissue paper) which gives a translucent layered effect to the watercolour. The modern touch this adds to the painting, hints at the present day while the main atmosphere reflects the past and the passing of time.