Project Description
These 30 paintings were created in a daily painting project, painting one a day for thirty days – each in oil on primed paper. To. avoid hunting for a new thing to paint each day, I worked through my amassed seed packet collection. Easy to hand, colourful, plentiful.
If you’re interested in any piece, drop me a message.
Each painting is painted in oils on A4, thick watercolour paper, primed twice with white gesso.
Largely for this project I used my own seeds, but along the way a few people lent or given me their seed packets, weaving their stories in with my own. One packet was a special memorial variety of Sweet Peas from Thompson and Morgan, raising money for the Melanoma Fund, a charity set up by the husband of a local East Grinstead woman who sadly passed away.


Swiss Chard, oil on primed paper

Radish, oil on primed paper

Tomato (beef), oil on primed paper

Coriander, oil on primed paper

Sweetpea, oil on primed paper

Climbing beans, oil on primed paper

Tomato, oil on primed paper

Work in progress on Day 15: Climbing Bean Cobra

Broadbeans, oil on primed paper

Parsnips, oil on primed paper

Poppy, oil on primed paper

Spinach, oil on primed paper

Courgette, oil on primed paper

Borage, oil on primed paper

Morning Glory, oil on primed paper

Cabbage, oil on primed paper

Chilli pepper, oil on primed paper

Cornflower, oil on primed paper

Sweetcorn, oil on primed paper

Beetroot, oil on primed paper

Mangetout, oil on primed paper

Sunflower, oil on primed paper

Shasta Daisy, oil on primed paper

Peas, oil on primed paper

Lettuce (carters), oil on primed paper

Nicotiana, oil on primed paper

Sunflower (red), oil on primed paper

Carrots, oil on primed paper

Lettuce (iceberg), oil on primed paper

Sweet Sultan, oil on primed paper

Pumpkin, oil on primed paper
To see a selection of framed originals, prints, cards and tote bags featuring the seed packet paintings, see my Etsy shop.




