Barbara King

Reflections: My paintings of boats reflected on turbulent water show a distorted reality, a jumble of colours and lines.  A transformation of life into something disturbed and muddled in much the same way as Covid 19 has mixed up our lives from that we knew so short a time ago. ’Liquify’ this experience and go ‘Back to Basics’ for a more sustainable way of life.

Hedgerows: During lockdown, with faith in the future, I have sown and grown the types of wildflowers which inform my ‘hedgerow’ paintings, documenting their progress with sketches. With luck, they will become source material for next year’s paintings.