I was sketching in kew gardens and struck by the beauty of the gardens and indoor glass hot houses.

I wanted to capture spirituality in this piece and took inspiration from a spiral staircase that belonged in the hot house leading to the roof of the building with foliage twining around its structure.

My work responds to the environment and it is the process of painting which is often spontaneous that leads the final piece and almost becomes the subject. I appose man made and revert to nature.