Ena Hartness

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gorgeous capturing of this single Rose in close up Kay, super depth of colour and super rendering of the water droplets falling on the petals and great work on that splashing of the water on those petals as well

Posted by Ros Patterson on Thu 19 Sep 15:23:43

I'm not surprised. Your friend will love this.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 19 Sep 18:55:45

I love the way you've carried off the relatively dark value rose against the even darker background, whilst keeping so much life & sparkle - and such a sense of movement.. Brilliant. Could the rose be called Ena Harkness? I'm sure my father grew roses grown by someone called Harkness (Jack??)

Posted by Bill Cook on Thu 19 Sep 21:25:13

Bill, the Rose is named Ena Hartness, it could be Hartness! I will check. Thank you for your kind comments (everyone!), they are much appreciated

Posted by Kay Ashton on Thu 19 Sep 23:03:23

Just beautiful, I have several Ena Harkness roses, they flower year after year.

Posted by karyl Quigley on Fri 20 Sep 10:32:25

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01/04/2015

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Oil on canvas, 20" x 20". This is going to be a gift for my good friend for her birthday in November, she has no idea. Ena Hartness is a very old rose which flowers every year in her garden, so I took load of photos of it with her husband stood over with a watering can! It was a beautiful sunny day, so really made the water splashing really sparkle against the beautiful velvet-like petals. Hope she likes it, I am really chuffed with it :-)

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Kay Ashton

Have always been able to draw but only started taking up painting about three years ago, when people wanted to buy my paintings and requested commissions. Watercolours came first followed by oil paintings, a medium I just loved, it was made for me, although I do enjoy other mediums at times such as…

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