Another book! I can’t help myself! This one is so exciting!
‘The paintings of Criss Canning’ – The house and garden at Lambley is a book I only came across by accident.
My son and I were on the weary journey to Brisbane for his medical appointments. We had stopped at Goomeri for a little bakery treat to cheer us up.
The bakery was closed, a little book shop Wimberly and Co was open. My legs needed stretching anyway and I find bookshops hard to resist. We were almost ready to go when the deep red spine of this book caught my eye in the art section. I’m sorry peeps but the cover of this book is incredible and the inside fulfills every promise that the cover makes!
Criss Canning has a garden, and ok, it’s also for her husband’s nursery business but they grow flowers just to paint them. Imagine… suddenly I have permission to keep doing the kind of paintings that thrill me. I have already begun to tend my garden, not just for amazing food, but because I feel it is food for my art, here is encouragement to keep at it. Criss Cannings paintings are so colourful and refined and beautiful and very very inspiring!