Jubilee Celebration.......Roses Oil Painting On Canvas Painting

This bouquet of cabbage roses were initially painted without me knowing what they were really called at the time, but they looked lovely to me and were a great challenge to paint. Apart from the intricacies, I wanted to see how well I could achieve contrast by using the same hue throughout the painting and still retain interesting detail. It was brought to my attention by a lady that they looked like Austin Roses, so I looked them up and contacted the company who grows them to enquire further. I was given various names by the florists of the flowers that had a similarity to the painted ones and thus, I fancied 'Jubilee Celebration' as a title. It sounded right, a glorious name. I hope you like this painting and may you take pleasure in looking at it. Thank you for the interest. Zeal.