The Death of the Bee Painting

Death of the Bee is a stunning still life and rich in mesmerising detail. It was pieced together from cuttings of an apple tree and a blackberry bush over three months. Many of the elements of the painting came together as it was being painted but from conception, this picture was all about the bee. I didn't having a bee to hand as I began the picture, leaving a small empty space at the bottom right of the painting especially for it. All that summer, whenever I was out walking or riding on my bike, I kept a lookout for dead bees, never finding one. The bottle came to me in the early stages of painting the right hand side. It had been made for use as a cordial bottle and sold on Watergate street in Chester just over a hundred years before. A storm the previous day had torn the bottle loose from whatever resting place to wash up along the banks of the Dee, where it waited to be discovered, still full of air and with the stopper intact. It was the perfect vertical element required by the composition, so in it went. In the final few days of the painting we came out early one morning to find a little bee lying dead on our doorstep, and so here he is.

Painting:Oil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:32 W x 14 H x 0.4 D in

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