Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash This is a picture made

This is a picture made to make children grin

pale stone and natural linen

each segment catching the soft daylight that filters through the leafy treeline behind

A giraffe fills this tall portrait

patient detail of an old herbarium plate

Giraffe Abstract Painting Frame:Dark ash This is a picture madeA giraffe gazes straight out of this exuberant abstract portrait, its head and long neck built from electric strokes of orange, magenta, turquoise and cobalt. The animal's features stay clearly readable, the gentle eyes, the ossicones, the soft muzzle, yet everything around them dissolves into a fireworks of expressive colour and dripping, painterly marks. Splashes of yellow and crimson flicker behind the neck, while cool blues run down the lower edge