Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash joyful strokes

joyful strokes

patient detail of an old herbarium plate

This view captures the open splendour of the French lavender country as the sun dips low

This is a picture made to make children grin

Hang it above a leather sofa in a snug reading corner

Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash joyful strokesA giraffe gazes straight out of this exuberant abstract portrait, its head and long neck built from electric strokes of orange, magenta, turquoise and cobalt. The animal's features stay clearly readable, the gentle eyes, the ossicones, the soft muzzle, yet everything around them dissolves into a fireworks of expressive colour and dripping, painterly marks. Splashes of yellow and crimson flicker behind the neck, while cool blues run down the lower edge