Frances Jill Studd: March 2016

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

This is my latest painting from the garden as Autumn settles in. It is warm

and muggy with the rain and the bees and butterflies are still busy

Among the leaves are many small beetles and ladybirds as we tidy up

for Winter. This work will form part of my Wild Garden exhibition

not just a series of paintings on gardens but a look at the

importance of supporting our birds and insects within an urban

environment.

All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2016

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

This is a new painting of the Rudbeckia daisies in a nearby garden. They are intermingled

with poppies and salvia and the bees seem to love them all. We are almost into

Autumn now and the houheria or lace bark tree is flowering at the back of our garden,

it is full of honey bees and from there they are coming into our vegetable patch to fertilize

the pumpkins. Along with the monarch butterflies they

are also visiting my pink cosmos and scarlet dahlias.

Wellington has had the hottest Summer on record so even with Autumn here

the days are warm and muggy.

A Monarch on the houheria tree