Wheatfield Castlewarden Painting

This painting was made after walking the fields around my home in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland. I have a passionate interest in nature and habitat, with a particular interest in the plight of our pollinators. Through my work I hope to raise awareness of this and ask what we can all do to help prevent their numbers dropping further. In Ireland many of our farmers are acutely aware of the balance between nature and cultivation, and leave borders and hedgerows for wild plants. In this painting of a Kildare wheat field border you can see the wild carrot and teasel thriving alongside the crops. Light is a very important element in my work, and I describe these native Irish plants in the undergrowth, the light picking out their form and colour. What you see here is a 'bees-eye' view of the world.