£500.00
'STINKING ROSE' the original painting.
Garlic has been called the ‘stinking rose’. I don’t know why. The name is shared by a pair of famous garlic focused restaurants in California that look very attractive. One in San Francisco and the other in Beverley Hills. My Mother was against the very idea of garlic. She said it frightened the horses. It certainly deters vampires because there aren’t around here. I can’t figure out why I love it so much. But I do.
‘STINKING ROSE’ the original painting by Colin Ruffell
Original acrylic on canvas painting.
6″ x 8″ [15cm x 20cm]
‘STINKING ROSE is one of the paintings that I created a while ago when I had a spell of painting a new painting every day. Most of the new pictures were small canvases like this. Some were traditional still-life arrangements set up in my studio. Others were painted ‘en plein aire’ or out on site. This interesting challenge lasted a few months and produced a number of failures and successes.’ CR
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