One day at the Eden Project

The day had come.

I was invited to the Eden Project to be a competitor in the ‘Landscape Artist of the year 2022’ by Sky TV.

I was very excited, especially as ‘landscape’ was not really my thing. I was working on what my ‘thing’ was aesthetically since my stroke on Feb 2020. It meant that I turned to collage as to my preferred medium as my ‘frozen hand’ prevented me from my usual painting. Tongue in cheek, I called the entirety of my experience a ‘stroke of genius.’ 

The day was very hot as we sped down motorways and countries to set up at the Eden Project. I had great conversations with my eldest sons Fergus and Silas.

I was the only one from the 50 odd artists that worked in collage and in a non-representative style. I remember really enjoying the sunshine and the impossible task of completing a landscape in 4 hours. I get on with the job at hand and was snapped by a professional and passing artists and interrupted the whole day by curious visitors to the Eden Project.

I did not mind in the slightest.

This was the result.