‘Honeysuckle Sharing Circle’ (Oil painting on canvas, by Alan Rayner, 2003).
The painting is centred around a candelabra of honeysuckle blooms. Each bloom is unique in its own sweet way and at a different stage
of development - some unopened, some freshly bursting, others yellowing. The blooms face outwards in a representation of combined
receptivity and responsiveness towards an inward facing fringe of other flowers, interleaved with grasses: white rockrose; red campion;
orange hawkweed; yellow-wort; green hellebore; bluebell; a mystery plant (actually an artistically licensed version of woad, original
source of indigotine); violet. The stalk of the honeysuckle winds spirally outwards and then back inwards and downwards to its self
origin, creating a pool of reflection, black in the middle and transforming through shades of blue to silver around its outside. When no
thing comes between, then no thing pools together a diversity of inner self with outer self-domains, waving correspondence through
complementary relationship of one with another, embodying light with shadow across the spectrum of possibilities in common space.
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