Climbing Roses in an old Pot

I had enough of these wonderful evergreen and bountiful spray roses to put into this lovely, grand old pot that my husband had bought for a couple of pounds from the tip. I wanted to describe how the mass of them filled the airy space I had put them in. I put them on newspaper which would not compete with the beautiful pale colours of their fragile blooms and tried to capture the light flooding through them from outside…

This painting was featured at the Grange Festival Exhibition