Still Life

“When in April the sweet showers fall
And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all
The veins are bathed in liquor of such power
As brings about the engendering of the flower”

These are the lines from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. To me, they sum up my own joy at seeing the first flowers coming through, after a long grey winter, the welcome of spring, renewal and rebirth.

Garden flowers and fruits, objects of significance. I gather them together to paint in my studio, in new spring light. They remind me of the transitory nature of life, and like Chaucer and his pilgrims, help me to celebrate a life lived, and journeys yet to come.

Softly painted flowers in a blue banded glass. soft blue sky and boats beyond.

Flowers Cornwall.Oil on canvas - 2006.

Painting of a Quimper jug with narcissi on a window ledge, beyond are rooks in trees and farm land, with stormy skies.

Studio, view with Narcissus IV.Oil on board - 2011.

A painting made at to celebrate Christmas. A still life with anemones in a glass jug and knitted nativity figures .

The Nativity with Cornish Anemones.Oil on board - 2020.

Painting of a Still life with garden flowers in two jugs and a Bernard Leach pottery sugar bowl . Oil on canvas . 2009 .

Still life with flowers.Oil on canvas - 2009.

A posy of Violets and Snowdrops in a decorated white jug with an orange background.

Violets and snowdrops.Oil on board. 2021.

A painting of a still life with flowers in jugs, fruit in a bowl and a black cat sleeping in a basket on the table.

September fruits.Oil on card - 2010.

A painting of a Still life withs eggs . Green objects on an orange table top.

Still life withs eggs.Oil on board - 1988.

Red and pink anemone's in a decorated jug on a green table top

Betty's Cornish anemone's.Oil on board. 2020.

A jug ,cup and three apples on a plate , on a wooden tray in front of a window and landscape.

Still life with Church. mixed media on board.1992

A painted still life of Staffordshire figure and Pool pottery vase with brushes .

Hope and evening light. Staffordshire figure & brushes. Acrylic on board. 2025.

A loose study of still life objects on a table in the landscape.

A brush pot and socks on a table. Acrylic on rice paper. 2025

Still life painting of a 3 sided mirror on a orange table cloth with a white jug and flowers .

Nans mirror with flowers. Porthleven. Oil on board 1988. Archive.

The head of a fish and another gutted on a plate.

Still life , fish on a plate. (Porthleven, fish came from John Strike and his brother next door ) 1988. Oil on board. Archive.

Flowers in a jug on a windowsill. Behind are birds in the garden.

Studio window.Cornish Anemones. Oil on board.

Painting: Gutted fish on a plate with a jug of greenery

Still life with fish.( Porthleven). Oil on gesso ground/board. 1988. Old oak frame. Archive .NFS

A jug holding red and pink anemones in a landscape with crows..

Doreen's Cornish Anemones.Oil on board. Private collection.