Sycamore dairy bowls filled with rosemary and herbs on a lead window kitchen ledge at Plas Mawr, Conwy. In Elizabethan times rosemary billowed through life with scent - not only used for cooking it was a medicinal symbolic plant citing wisdom and faithfulness. The flowers, boiled in tea, were an all-purpose medicine. Putting the leaves under your pillow guarded against nightmares. The ashes of the wood, burnt, were used for cleaning teeth. Brides and grooms exchanged rosemary wreaths instead of rings; burned as insence and planted or strewn on graves. There is a still peaceful quality here, of light and reflections. These objects integral to life.

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame. 63 x 75 cm (79 x 89 cm including frame) Ask for this work at Ffin y Parc Gallery