“Early Daffs” captures that fleeting moment in spring when the air still holds winter’s chill, yet colour begins to return to the land. The painting balances cool cerulean blues and teals against the warmth of a fiery coral sky — a visual dialogue between promise and remembrance.

The slender birches rise like a musical refrain, their rhythm echoed in the vertical brushstrokes and reflected light across the stream. The small cluster of yellow flowers near the foreground provides both title and emotional centre — a quiet assertion of renewal amid the vivid intensity of surrounding colour.

This work, though rooted in observation, belongs to the realm of memory and emotion. It is less a depiction of place than a celebration of seasonal awakening — the moment when hope first glows through the frost.