Lupins at Dusk
An oil on canvas (30 × 20 inches), painted in 2023. The title places the scene at the threshold between day and night, a moment when colour deepens rather than fades: lupins, with their tall, densely packed flower spikes, lend themselves naturally to that last saturated purple before the light goes. The hillside setting and the stone church on the horizon suggest a northern or upland landscape, the kind of place where such wildflowers colonise roadsides and rough ground in early summer.
The composition sets a vertical rhythm in the foreground, the lupins rising against what one imagines as a darkening sky, while the church anchors the middle distance with the quiet authority of a long-established landmark. The pairing of wild, abundant growth with a solitary piece of architecture is a well-worn pastoral tension, but it remains effective: the cultivated and the untamed, the permanent and the seasonal, held in a single glance.