Banana Painting Size:36"x24" expressive handling captures spirit over

expressive handling captures spirit over precision

salt air and the unhurried rhythm of a shore left to itself

their pale faces weathered into arches and slender rock stacks that march out into the shallows

Set it on a hallway console or above a breakfast table to carry a breath of the allotment indoors

The mood is hushed and faintly magical

Banana Painting Size:36"x24" expressive handling captures spirit overTwo ripe bananas rest together at the heart of this quietly realistic study, their golden skins freckled with brown and tipped by a fresh green stem. They sit on a weathered, mottled ground of taupe, ochre and soft grey, the textured surface giving the scene an aged, almost fresco like character. Light falls gently from the side, modelling the curve of each fruit and casting a soft shadow beneath. There is something honest and grounding in this