Inspiration for my work

One of the artists who inspired my work was Cicely Mary Barker who was born in England in 1895 and who is most famous for her Flower Fairies Books. Her paintings combined plant and flower paintings with child-like fairies each unique to their flower and plant. 

I love the child-like magic, wonder and curioustly that she generates through her work which i try to capture within my own work. Being an adult we sometimes lose track of our inner child and I find it's this aspect that we need to get more in touch with as so many of us have lost touch along the way. 

"Spring Magic" by Cicely Mary Barker

The world is very old:

But year by year 

It groweth new again

When buds appear.

The world is very old,

And sometimes sad,

But when the Daisies come

The world is glad.

The world is very old:

But every Spring It groweth young again,

And fairies sing.