A New Series of Garden Paintings
This is the beginning of a series of garden paintings, I have always wanted to paint gardens as gardening is one of my favourite passtimes. When I was a child growing up in the UK my Mother, Grandmother and I would make weekend trips to visit gardens and historic homes, these are some of my favourite memories. The neighbours and relations gardens were just as interesting of course.
When we came to New Zealand in 1961 there was a whole new world of trees and plants to look at, I can remember sitting in the dining room at the hotel in Auckland where we first stayed and my Mother asking someone what the flowers were in the vases. They were gerberas and we had never seen them before. That was just the beginning.
This painting was made from photographs I took while visiting a friends garden recently.
All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2014
