A horse's head painted across bare wood planks, the grain left visible through the paint so the boards become part of the animal. Silver leaf is worked into the mane and the background, catching light the pigment cannot. Square, 100 × 100 cm. Signed...

Two boats drawn up on their reflections, painted directly onto wood planks with silver leaf laid into the water. The grain runs horizontally behind the hulls and reads as the surface of the water — the support doing part of the work of the...

A row of trees reduced to blocks of red, ochre, and white, painted on wood and sealed under a high-gloss finish that makes the colour read as though it is still wet. Vertical at 80 × 120 cm, and the strongest colour statement in...

The largest canvas in the collection at 150 × 75 cm: a tree whose leaves are worked in gold and silver over a pale grey ground, each one raised and catching light separately. Hung where it can be seen from an angle, the whole...

White peonies opened across a gold-leaf ground, the flowers built up thickly in white and cream while the gold is left flat behind them. Supplied in a slim gold frame — the only framed work in the collection, and the most formal of them....

A burst of petals radiating from a single centre, painted in every colour of the wheel with a palette knife rather than a brush — each stroke laid once and left. The most abstract piece in the collection, and the one that carries a...

The Tree of Love — a hand-painted canvas in which a single tree opens into a crown of red blossom, worked in thick, raised strokes that catch the light from across the room. At 120 × 60 cm it is built for a wall...

The Tree of Life in oil: a single trunk opening into a wide canopy of white and silver blossom against a warm neutral ground. The paint is laid thickly enough that the blossom sits proud of the canvas and takes its own shadow. At...

The Tree of Happiness: the companion to the red Tree of Love, worked in blues and turquoise over a grey ground with the same raised blossom. Bought as a pair they read as one work in two panels; alone, this is the cooler and...

Il Fiore dei Fiori — the flower of flowers — a single white bloom opened across the whole canvas, its petals built up in thick white paint and edged with gold leaf against a soft grey and ochre ground. 80 × 80 cm, square....

An open landscape under a full sky — a barn, a silo, a line of fields — painted in oil and finished with a gloss varnish that deepens the blues. The sky takes two-thirds of the canvas, which is what gives a 100 ×...

Notte di San Lorenzo — the night of the falling stars, the tenth of August in Italy, when the sky is watched for wishes. A single bare tree stands under a wash of deep blue scattered with white, a small town line at the...