Wild flowers and pomegranate March 31st, 2020

The restrictions on moving around grow more severe. Friends across the world are in isolation, in Cyprus, in the UK and USA. A walk down the road results in a bunch of wildflowers - the turpentine trees are flowering. Here is Constance Sitwell (1888 - 1974) on flowers:"There is the homely flower one has passed a thousand times, dully, blindly, unaware. Take it and look at it ... and one shrinks back at the incredible beauty revealed, the unbelievable creation, the glistening shining petals , petals dusted over with silver and gold, the living bloom of them; the whole perfection of the form."

Diana Wood Conroy 'Wildflowers and pomegranate', watercolour on Arches paper 15 x 21 cm 31 March 2020