Giganteus Miscanthus

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After not picking up brushes and paint for year after year after year, when I finally bought a canvas this was the first artwork I produced. This is the first off the production line in, what was personally, a voyage of re-discovering painting.

As usual I didn’t have an inkling as to what I’d like to paint! So, I went trawling through bookshops looking for inspiration. To my total surprise I uncovered a publication by The Royal Horticultural Society entitled ’Grasses.’

I simply liked the images in it. And that’s how this painting started. I had it knocking around for ages stacked, unseen facing the wall in my studio.

I’d always thought the work was striking but there were bits that I wasn’t 100% happy with. So, after years of neglect, I put it back on the easel and took another look.

Giganteus Miscanthus (the title) is, of course, yer actual Latin name for a grass which is described as being – ‘dramatic in its combination of yellow variegation and unusual in that the culms it puts on in early summer are upright, but those developed in autumn are oblique.’ Well, I think that says it all.