This is an original 40x40” acrylic and oil painting on a gallery thick, 1.5” birch wood panel. "Pickles" is the sixth painting in the Sustenance Series.

"Pickles" was painted, in part, thanks to an overwhelming number of TikTok followers commenting that I absolutely NEEDED to paint pickles, the world would not be complete without a painting of some fermented cucumbers. I just to happened to agree and have been thrilled and fascinated to find a corner of the internet that is absolutely obsessed with pickles.

Similar to the other Sustenance pieces, while painting "Pickles", I fell in love with the swoops and blops of paint that diverge from what we typically hold in our minds as "pickle-y" or "pickle-like" colours. Wonderfully, greens and pinks work beautifully together, the result within "Pickles" is a sparkling, glittery scene of dill pickles, partially submerged in a black bowl, glistening perhaps somewhat provocatively (enough to get some people commenting 👀 emojis at the scene came together). It's a painting that's sparked epic debate online about what indeed the best sort of pickle is, "dill" winning by a landslide and flavours like "bread and butter" being a popular, yet also despised, option.

All in all, "Pickles" was an absolute joy to photograph and paint.

Stand close to the work and see the piece fragment into impressionistic geometry, or stand back and watch it knit together into a more photo-realistic artwork.

A signature look of the series is how the painting wraps around the edges of the panel by a 1/2”, the remaining depth was left the blonde birch wood. The entire piece, edges included, is coated in a satin varnish.