Cut Flowers
Harrow Street Gallery · Still life · 2026- Medium
- Oil, alla prima
- Support
- Oak panel and fine linen
- Sizes
- 30 × 40 cm to 60 × 70 cm
- Painted
- May to August 2026
- Shown at
- Harrow Street Gallery
- Available
- Two panels, prints of White Roses
A cut flower gives you about five days. That is the whole schedule. Each of these paintings was started the morning the flowers came in from the garden.
My neighbor grows roses along the harbor wall, and this summer she let me cut what I wanted. The deal was a small painting at the end of it.
Flowers move. They open, turn to the window, and drop petals in the night. So I paint the center first, while it is fresh, and the leaves last.
The pansies came from a window box on Quay Lane. They were the only flowers that lasted longer than the painting.
The roses were cut at seven and on the table by eight. The first lay-in took the whole morning.
The lilies opened on the third day and changed the whole picture. I let them.
The big rose dropped its first petal on the fifth day, two hours after I finished it.
Plates 04 Cut Flowers · 2026
Pinks are mixed from alizarin and white, never from a tube pink. The pansy petals are a single stroke each, laid down and not touched again.
- Panel
- Oak, six coats of gesso
- Brushes
- Sable rounds, 2 to 6
The whole series
4 paintings · Summer 2026
“I asked for one small painting. I got four, and a summer of talking over the wall.”
Four canvases from the studio wall.
Cut Flowers · Oil on panel and linen · 2026-
01 Pink Rose and Morning Glory -
02 White Roses, Late June -
03 Garden Jar -
04 Pansies
One painter, one studio, cut flowers.
Full credits
Behind the series
- Painted by
- Odile Marrow
- Flowers
- Agnes Pell, from the harbor wall
- Panels
- Fernhill Panel Works
- Photography of the works
- Mira Castell
- Shown by
- Harrow Street Gallery
And the roses, which did not wait.