Rare Bloom New Collection
An Ongoing Series

“Rare Bloom” unfolds as a poetic dialogue between nature’s mystery and human desire. Drawing inspiration from H.G. Wells’ The Flowering of the Strange Orchid and the 19th-century English obsession with collecting the exotic and the beautiful, this series explores the fine line between wonder and obsession — between cultivation and control.

At its heart lies the story of Beatrice Corsini, my ancestor, whose greenhouse became a sanctuary for orchids — delicate, rare, and intoxicating. Through her passion, the greenhouse transformed into both a botanical haven and a mirror of Victorian fascination with the unattainable

.In Rare Bloom, these threads intertwine: Wells’ strange orchid, pulsing with uncanny life; the feverish hunt for rare species that swept through England; and the personal legacy of a woman who devoted her life to nurturing beauty at the edge of the unknown. Each piece in the collection embodies this tension — between fragility and vitality, allure and danger, rarity and rebirth.

Watercolour on Linen

136cm x 109cm

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Japanese Watercolors on linen

110cm x 147cm

Watercolour on Coarse Linen

130 cm x 90 cm

This piece emerged from the study of three botanically distinct flowers whose forms and symbolic qualities fascinated me . Through a process of observation and intuitive transformation their structures merge into a single invented organism . Anchored by stone like roots and rendered in layers hues on coarse linen , the figure exists between the natural and mythical suggesting a state of perpetual becoming rather than a fixed species

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