Fantastic Foxgloves

A few years ago I was walking the dog with my Dad and he asked if I'd seen 'the Foxglovery’. A made up name for a familiar place, one that had recently been felled and replanted, and as part of that process the foxgloves had sprung up. An opportunistic magenta carpet. It was stunning, we walked between the flowers, some taller than us.

I'd forgotten about this until I started writing this post- I was going to say that foxgloves caught my eye last summer but I realised it was longer ago than that, it was on that walk with Dad.

The awe and wonder of that much colour and at that scale is something else.

Last year I wondered about drawing them, but I wanted to do it to scale and couldn't quite work out how.

This year the foxgloves were astounding.

By chance I saw a photo of David Hockney's 'Four Part Splinge' a print in 4 quarters, each framed and on a wall in a lifestyle shoot in a magazine. It was like a cartoon lightbulb above my head and I got 4 sheets of A2 watercolour paper and began.

I'm thrilled to say it's now on the wall at The Artists’ Gallery in Ludlow so you too can come and stand amongst the foxgloves.

(You don’t have to colour coordinate your outfit to match them however like I accidentally managed to recently!)