ARTGEORG

The painting is 440 X 400 cm in size made up of 14 separate canvases mounted on a specially made frame. The upper part of the work is a complex assembly of many of the elements which go to make a flower. These include visible elements like petals, anthers, ovaries, stigmas and seeds while others are microscopic like pollen grains and even molecular in size like proteins and collagens. But we know that they are there and my scientific training and access to equipment has enabled me often see the natural world at this level. I feel that our vision of the flowers is greatly widened by including elements at very different sizes, while ignoring scale. I like jumbling things and obfuscating in my paintings in this way as it illustrates how complex the natural world is.The human visible spectrum is rather limited but most of us appreciate the yellow colours which are dominant in many wildflowers such as buttercups, poppies and dandelions while I have included some blueish colours deliberately to represent the vision of the bees to whom the flowers are just as important as to us. At the bottom of the painting is a single perfect dandelion bloom which in a sense is the end product of the complex processes which went into its making. The large size of the work is yet another way of showing how complex nature is. The tiny dandelion emerges from an ever evolving source of amazing variation and size.
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