Original artwork description:

It’s a warm sunny spring day, and my husband returns home from work and says… “I see you are working hard again, then?” Well, actually, I am, honest. I may be sitting on the lawn and staring at “nothing” and have been doing that for the last hour, but I really am “working”. I’m watching and observing the nature at my feet. I have done this since I was a child, I like to follow an ant, what is its purpose and where are they going? Scouting for food or returning to the nest with the news of food? My favourite part of A level biology was to mark out a metre square of ground and start counting the species, it is amazing how many different plants and insects you will find in that small area of ground. Looking up to the sky is me pretending to be that insect scouting around the grass looking for something and I look up to these vibrant flowers against the evening sky. These miniature buttercups are now reds, oranges and purples as the light begins to fade and there is a small glimmer of light on the horizon as the sun begins to sink.

Materials used:

Oil