acrylic and oil on collaged canvas, 100 x 100 x 3.8 cm
I painted the last stages of this while listening to Arundhati Roy read her new book, Mother Mary Comes to Me, about her mother and her own life. She was a great Beatles fan, and I guess she still is.
I painted the under layers and the lines, which are paint runs and glaze medium runs before I had worked out how the painting was going to be. In the autumn the echinacea petals shrivel but the cones are still colourful especially when the low autumn sun shines on them.
This painting is available from Graystone Gallery, in Edinburgh