Mad English Summer Garden Women's Tank Top

I had so much fun painting this! I used lots of different sized brushes and tons of thick paint which I just kept applying until I felt I was at least beginning to approximate the enthusiasm of nature when it makes a summer garden. As usual, in my latest, paintings, there is a path through the garden that leads somewhere. It is up to the viewer to decide where but it will be somewhere fantastic

I am a professional artist based in Sussex and I paint large original landscape and seascape paintings in oil on canvas. I have a Fine Art degree in sculpture (Brighton, 1983) but am mostly self taught as a painter. My painting style is a fusion of Expressionist, Impressionist, Semi-abstract, Art Deco, a little Art Nouveau and whatever mood I am in that day. I often practice a kind of Impressionism in that I walk, look at things and then paint from memory. The result is that I paint what was impressed upon me when I looked at a landscape - thus a kind of Impressionism! (I hope that makes sense). I am inspired by the patterns of nature and the energy, colours and spaces of the landscapes and animals around me. I like to think that...