We went to the beautiful exhibition at the Garden Museum of Rory McEwen’s botanical paintings, done on vellum from an early age – the first when he was eight:-

They are very beautiful, sometimes in an abstract way, which is presumably why his work was admired by Jim Dine and Ed Ruscha:-

I realised that we know his work from the book he did for Charlene Garry’s Basilisk Press:-

Here he is photographed by David Dimbleby:-

A late work:-