This artwork is inspired by an episode of "Amazing Hotels" where Monica Galetti and Miles Coren visit Mashpi Lodge in the Andean cloud forest of Ecuador. There were so many beautiful orchids and plants all growing in a cloud covered forest. Stunning!
I cut and constructed lots of different shaped flowers from plain watercolour paper and decoratively arranged them, along with fern and leaf shapes, in a square in the centre of a square sheet of the same watercolour paper.
I created the piece as I went along, placing the leaves and ferns around the edge first, then added more from the centre outwards, and also several butterflies. The whole piece is framed in a deep white box frame glazed with Perspex.
The result is a completely white textured relief design revealing individual flowers and butterflies on closer inspection. And as with all my work the different shadows cast are as interesting as the piece itself!
