The Merry Month of May

I can time the year by the flowers in my still life paintings.  If it’s tulips it must be before June. I know you can buy tulips year-round now, but I tend to use what I have in the garden as each flower that appears feels like a new opportunity!

A Definitiion of Corny - Ceramic pets , egg tempera on panel, 30 x 22cm, 2021

So, when I finished the fifth of my portraits of Key workers (I need at least six for the exhibition at the Colne Gallery that opens on the 30th of May) https://www.rebeccaguyverart.com/portraits-of-key-workers I rushed out in the garden and set something up that would mark this May for me. To me May is maypoles and lilacs, heady scent and lambs.

Although it’s the sort of painting that may not be to everyone’s taste, it spoke to the girl in me.