About this artwork

‘Sunflowers in a Lilac Jug’
22.5 x 30 cms oil on cotton canvas board
Featuring a few of my favourite things...

After I’d tried, unsuccessfully, to find sunflowers locally for quite a different painting project, my husband managed to find some which had just been delivered to store in the next town. They just looked like sticks when they first arrived home, and a whole week on are still refusing to fully open!
I decided to change tack and paint a still life while I was waiting.
I thought the sunflowers would go perfectly with my lilac jug, which is part of a jug and bowl washset that I bought years ago at a local vintage flea market. I also retrieved a beautiful gifted tablecloth from storage too.
The jug and bowl set has moved home with me countless times since I first bought it at that flea market, and it has suited the age and style of some dwellings far more than others, but I love it and I don’t intend to ever part with it. I’m really pleased that it’s appeared in a painting, even if it wasn’t actually the painting I intended to paint next!