“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth … it is the time for home”

In the winter of 2013 I took a photograph from my old bedroom window at my mother’s home in Leamington Spa. She had recently had to move into a care home and the house was for sale. When she died a few months later, I wanted to capture the memory of this beloved garden on canvas. My mother and stepfather tended and loved it for over 30 years and we had so many happy family gatherings within those beautiful surroundings. Many years ago I celebrated my 40th birthday in the garden and my children and I played many a game of croquet with ‘Granny’ there. She and I would sit on that bench, putting the world to rights over a cup of tea and the robin I’ve painted on the bench will forever represent her presence in the garden.

The garden as we knew and loved it no longer exists, so this painting captures a precious moment in time … of winter, of love, of family and of home … the things that have become even more precious to us all in this strange year of covid. 

 

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