“When I started this it had been a darkish two weeks in terms of mental health. I like being amongst nature and being with plants. I felt the greens were very foresty and then I thought of flowers. The only flowers I could think of were poppies. I thought there should be some sunshine even if the forest was dark because even in a dense forest there are places where the light can seep through. Adding the metallic purple was a way to make the forest darker when painting. Then after flipping the painting upside down the flowers appeared more like houses with the stems becoming smoke. It seems like the dense forest became a storm and the sun became an incoming inferno, trapping the huts between the flames and the storm. Now after seeing it dried the painting has become much lighter in colour and my mental health has improved gradually.”
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