The Saved Rosebud, watercolour, 111⁄2x81⁄4in. (30x21cm)
In this third article of a series we began in Leisure Painter (November 2018) I continue the story of my artist’s journal, a visual diary of my garden through the seasons. As we move into spring, the mood lifts and a sense of excited anticipation grows as the gloomy days and long dark nights of winter are left behind. Spring is a happy, hopeful word; we talk about having ‘a spring in your step’, about how things ‘spring into life’ and how ‘hope springs eternal’.