Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash patient detail of an old

patient detail of an old herbarium plate

With crisp photographic depth

attentive eyes give the little face a gentle curiosity

This view captures the open splendour of the French lavender country as the sun dips low

pale stone and natural linen

Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash patient detail of an oldA giraffe gazes straight out of this exuberant abstract portrait, its head and long neck built from electric strokes of orange, magenta, turquoise and cobalt. The animal's features stay clearly readable, the gentle eyes, the ossicones, the soft muzzle, yet everything around them dissolves into a fireworks of expressive colour and dripping, painterly marks. Splashes of yellow and crimson flicker behind the neck, while cool blues run down the lower edge