And there the snake throws her enamelled skin | 2022

Original artwork by Sharon Field 

And there the snake throws her enamelled skin, watercolour and graphite, 16cm x 9cm (image), 2022. Framed size: 41cm x 33cm, double mat, off white, gold border around image, black frame.

These words were spoken by Oberon, from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.  As the Euphorbia in my garden slowly sink down near the end of the summer, the leaves and stalk take on wonderful new characteristics.  Seeing these changes is part of the beauty of nature, in constant flux. SF