Purple Defiance

The colour is so stunning Linda, and their smell after it has rained is just awesome :-) Thank you for such a lovely comment, I’m glad that you have seen them at their very best. I also hope that the resistance against their removal continues!

Lynda thank you for the feature and commenting on my work! This is a great honour :-)

Thank you for that super comment Leslie :-)

Thank you for that wonderful compliment :-))))

Mariaan thank you! I painted it a couple of years ago after travelling from Bonnievale to Robertson on that beautiful flower-lined road that winds through the mountains and vineyards. I think we all remember that myth, even those of us at University in Grahamstown :-) I also remember the OTHER saying which was, if you hadn’t studied by the time they were flowering you were going to fail!!!!

Thank you for that lovely comment :-)

Thank you for that wonderful comment Colin :-) I had been moving more towards this kind of abstraction, but now I am back to depicting photorealism as I learn to paint this beautiful country that is so new in every way to me.

Thank you Tori for your super comment Tori.

Thank you so much for your lovely comment and invitation to the Group which I would really love to do :-)

The Weed Police have so decreed Linda :-( I have found that when politicians’ corruption is being uncovered, there is always a huge cloud of dust created to hide their misdemeanors!!!

That’s a lovely comment :-) Thank you very much!

Carolyn thank you so much!

That is such a nice compliment Melanie, thank you :-) Jacarandas are one of life’s greatest pleasures and that colour is haunting – I took loads of them flowering when I lived in Brisbane. I doubt if I’m ever going to see them in British Columbia, but I can always make them come alive by painting more I guess?

:-)))) Thanks so much guys!!!

:-)))) If I had known you liked it so much I would have given it to you silly billy! oxox

Oops!! This is a problem when one is still learning to figure out all this stuff on Red Bubble – sorry about that :-)

Thank you for that lovely compliment Lynda :-) oxox

Thank you for your great insight Lorus :-)

:-) Thank you for such wonderful compliments Therese, I wish I was able to create the songs!

Thank you for that wonderful compliment and for the Feature, this is so cool! Jacarandas are one of life’s great pleasure I think :-)

Thank you Thea, the fate of these trees is very dear to my heart!

Thank you for this wonderful compliment :-)))))

Lynda thank you so much :-) I’m amazed at the reception this painting has received, shows what a little outrage can do for one’s artwork I guess!!

I find it somewhat amazing and I’m more than a little thrilled Lynda :-) Thank you very much! oxox

Diko thank you! Your win was well-deserved, your paintings are superb :-)