The Italian phrase senza fretta translates to English as ‘take your time’ or ‘no hurry’ and generally we all hurry through life without grasping the beauty of what we have before our very eyes each day. In this still life, I’ve included simple, obvious things, like the dry leaves of the linden trees pruned by the roadside. Yet, if we look more carefully we notice the extraordinary colours, shapes and textures.

Commended - Still Life