Easter Flowers - Mixed media, oil on acrylic

Just when we have grown weary of winter and are longing to see the sun rise up again into summer skies, there come the daffodils. "Daffodils," wrote William Shakespeare, "that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty." Apparently the Romans first brought daffodil (narcissus) bulbs to Britain, and being particularly hardy, frost resistant, and deer and rodent proof, they survived in the wild and spread. By the 1200s they were being cultivated in English gardens, and by Elizabethan times celebrated in poetry. "Strew me the ground with daffadowndillies," wrote Edmund Spenser, with a playful affection we recognise today. And so that is what I have done here.

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size	paper	canvas
26in x 21.5in,660mm x 553mm	£135.00	£148.50
24in x 20,610mm x 508mm	£110.00	£121.00
21in x 17.5in,533mm x 445mm	£90.00	£99.00

Hand-signed and numbered Giclée prints in a limited edition of 200 for each size.