In this exhibition both artists engage with the subject matter of flora, offering a contemporary update on flower painting traditions whilst playing upon and subverting its decorative history. The exhibition title ‘The Flower Question’, borrowed (with permission) from a work by Gary Michael Dault, hints at the paradoxical nature of floral imagery – although often associated with spring-like renewal, for both artists the floral motifs are indicative of ‘the end’ as much as ‘the beginning’.
Image Credit: Martin Golland, Gypsy Sue, 2016, 20″ × 16″, oil and acrylic on linen
