Wolves in the Sheep Pen
Oil and pastel on canvas
Diptych
1 x 50cm x 50cm and 1 x 50cm x 31cm
Individually framed in black, wooden float frames
2022
This painting is inspired by a private garden in Nenthead, Cumbria. Nenthead is the highest village in England at 1500 feet above sea level, and so gardening in this part of the world can be a challenge!
This garden is carved out of the fells, with a piece of field walled off and filled with colour and exploding with lupins as well as other plants and flowers
The diptych follows the rules of the Golden Section, which has been used for centuries in art, but also reflects the mysteries of nature.
The name comes from the Lupin, being Latin for Wolf, and the incongruity of scene, in this part of the world that usually has sheep on its land – not Lupins!