A Place in Time
Created as part of my 2023–2024 artist residency at The Acres, this painting is rooted in months of weekly sketchbook studies. I spent long hours drawing flowers in ink, adding crayon to capture the flicker of their colours. Those pages became a rich source of observational material, eventually blooming into this large-scale studio work.
Banana plants have been part of my artistic journey since the very beginning. Early in my career, I painted en plein air in Bermuda, setting up my easel among the local parish banana patches and working small-scale in gouache on paper.
When I first saw the towering bananas at The Acres, the connection was instant. I knew I wanted to draw and paint them again — but this time, on a grander scale. The experience felt like coming home, revisiting a subject I’ve loved for decades but with fresh eyes and a deeper understanding of place and time.