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“A Hollyhock Riot In The Pink garden!”

Style: Observed Realism

Plein‑Air Painting

Oil on Canvas Panel

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an interesting building peeps over a high wall with a riot of flowers in front of it
The building in the background is an Elizabethan gatehouse

Artwork Size

(Unframed)
Model is 5'4" (1.62m)

Dimensions

  • Artwork:25.4 x 25.4 cm( 10 x 10 ins )

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Painting “A Hollyhock riot in the pink garden!”

Plein‑Air Painting – Oil on Canvas Panel

Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire, England, UK

Even though there's an unpredictability about al fresco art, outdoor painting is addictive.

A weather forecast suggesting a bright day with much sunshine is never guaranteed, and I arrived on location to a very dull day.

Though the Summer was drawing to a close, I was not yet ready to lose the sunshine from my pictures, and was disappointed at the prospect of painting without sun and shadows.

Pacing about in search of a subject to paint, it was in the pink garden where I walked into what I could only describe as a riot of Hollyhocks flowering like, well, the summer was ending.

Hollyhocks are biannual plants, meaning you have to wait a year before they flower the next year. Plant them en mass though, and you're in for a riot of flower worth the wait.

This is why, despite rapidly heading into Autumn, my search for a subject to paint didn't take long the day I found this view. At the bottom end of the walled garden at Burton Agnes Hall there's an area with many small colour specific gardens.

Though it wasn't as bright a day as I'd been fortunate to enjoy during the previous weeks, the pinks here fizzed so much it didn't matter. That's the power of flowers.