Summer Leaves Series

Is there anything more indicative of summer than sitting on a palm-lined beach, lathered in coconutty suncream, skin slightly pink, grains of sand between your toes.

Strelitzias. Palm Trees. Aloes. Dune Creepers.

Abruptly giving way to the vast sand dunes and eventually, warm Indian Ocean waters. I took these summer scenes home to my studio, and out they flowed in varying values of rich, black ink to form this body of work.