Summer in the Chelsea Physic Garden

A3 Limited edition signed giclée print, edition of 20. Unframed.  

This print is taken from a watercolour and gouache work. After the first lockdown in London, we tentatively met two friends at Chelsea Physic Garden, cycling over from east London along a bright, vivid blue Thames.

One of the friends knows huge amounts about landscape, botany, utopias - and it felt like this full wondrous blow to the senses. It was hot and heady, there were so many bees and incredible scents, plus hearing fascinating things from real life friends unconfined by zoom boxes.

The garden was set up in 1673, established by the Apothecaries in order to grow medicinal plants. It felt appropriate to be in a garden designed for healing and I wanted to hold it afterwards in this painting, which in later (especially winter) lockdowns felt like it might have been a dream. 

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