Circle Garden Paintings

Kathleen Mullaniff's colourful circle paintings submerge the viewer in an overgrown garden of moss, forget-me-nots and horses' tails. While restoring a Victorian garden, she worked directly from the plants, drawing and painting the process. "Digging, clearing and re-arranging, finding lost plants, the old shrubs left, new trees, old trees, new bulbs, old bulbs. Planting, digging, growing. Tulips, daffodils, clematis and honeysuckle". These images are in one layer of oil paint, they are direct and immediate.