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‘When I was a child my parents used to get loo rolls and put them over the top of sunflowers to help them grow taller,’ says James Stopforth when describing early memories of blossoming spring flowers and the origins of his lifelong love of nature. For the Spring Artist Series the photographer, who regularly collaborates with Jo Malone London, created a huge image of the sun composed entirely out of buttercups, complete with a real bee nestling amongst the yellow flowers.
To create the piece, he gathered the flowers on his daily lockdown walks around Harrow in north-west London and in Richmond Park, before carefully laying them out with tweezers and photographing them against a blue background with a scanner. ‘Seeing all the bulbs gathering up after winter was really uplifting,’ says Stopforth, who noticed that the bees would buzz around the buttercups which were among the first flowers to blossom. ‘It comes from this idea that all of life reaches up towards the sun in one direction, away from the cold and into the warmth,’ he says when thinking about the inspiration for the piece.
He chose to arrange the flowers in a circular form, not only because they symbolise the moon and the sun, but also because he thinks that a fascination with circles harks back to mankind’s earliest relationship with nature, which was more intimate. ‘I think that in early art, the symbolism of the sun is very powerful,’ says Stopforth. ‘And generally, whatever I do, it comes back to a circle. Nature used to surround people in a way that they just absorbed, and they made their art with what they saw, which was the moon, sun, stars, and animals. But now, we're perhaps a bit more detached from it. So, it's nice to bring things back just to nature.’