“Wherever nature works there will be beauty”

BSMGP travelling exhibition 2023 -2024, Ely Cathedral

”Wherever nature works there will be beauty whether it's in the Red House Garden or the world outside your window”.

William Morris's quotation inspired this panel evolved from ink studies of a corner of our garden in Spring. The convolutions of the corkscrew hazel abut black bamboo, the fine leaves of the silver queen pittosporum sparkle in the dappled light and lime green euphorbia are flanked by lilyturf grasses. Morris envisaged the garden as a series of rooms, inseparable from the house, inspired by the jewelled enclosed gardens of medieval manuscripts.

Antique glass, painted and leaded.