Black timber and a bright yellow door is a small homage to the garden/yarden style of Derek Jarman, who created an other worldly garden at his home, Prospect Cottage on Dungeness Beach, off the Kent Coast.

I am not certain how I stumbled into the world of Derek Jarman it would have been in the early 1980s in Brighton.I love the way he writes and his aesthetic style.

Modern Nature, his book about HIV and creating a garden is one of my favourite books to dip into, until I loaned it and it has failed to be returned. Or has simply been misplaced or left somewhere.

There are so many nuggets of wisdom  to take from his musings but this little quote always makes me happy.

How luxurious and fortunate is it, to wander aimlessly either mentally or physically within our own lives.

 

Last year I painted this door yellow. Only at dawn did it look even close to the perfect egg yolk yellow. Any later sunlight and the bright white walls bleached the yellow to a horrible acidic shade that was very much not to our taste. Traffic Light by Zinzer is perfect.