Spider Plant Print

The sharp contours of the Spider Plant helped me to define the positive and negative spaces as clear, flat coloured shapes, rather than as one uniform 'background'. In fact the individual pieces of colour that make up the background are just as flat as the apparently 'rounded' shapes that make up the flowerpot or the reflective surface of the dresser on which it rests. Each colour is also a tone, and each one harmonises to make the illusion of roundness and the space occupied by the leaves. Painted whilst a student at Leeds University, this painting won me a scholarship to study in Florence for a year.