John Skinner

John Skinner’s work challenges traditional ideas of flower painting as a vehicle for beauty. Instead, his practice explores flowers as provocative forms that resist sentimentality. During lockdown, John wandered along lanes and pathways photographing wild orchids emerging in abandoned spaces—camouflaged, strange, and unsettling in their presence. These encounters informed the paintings Les Fleurs Perfides and reinforced his interest in flowers representing tension and resistance.