"There is no improvement on nature; I can only honor and revel in it, play with it. The natural world gives me all the inspiration I need, a springboard, it can be the structure of a bloom or a foot or a gathering of shapes - from there it's spontaneous and I'm off through some kind of portal. There are times I don't remember painting part of a piece... it's improv, riffing, so much like singing really. As much as I begin unrestrained, there is a constant return to detail, to complete mindfulness of balance, and gesture, a process that begins with abandon but concludes with sober calculated decisions.

In this series colour is all important. There are colors I want-need-to see next to each other, certain combinations thrill me ... I want everyone to feel it."

- Alexis England