This painting was also from my time living in Vancouver this year. The blossom season there seems to go on forever as various trees come into flower at slightly different times. I was living in an area where everywhere you looked the streets were lined with blossoms and the colour and flamboyance of the flowers was the thing I wanted to capture. Nature is so inspiring to me, especially plants, and these blossoms were like candy--almost too much. I was intrigued in several of these works such as “ The Year We All Stayed Home” and “ The Forest Full of Tiny Misdemeanours” to go into the details of the story that I wanted to talk about, especially the leaves and flowers, abstracting them in a different way from the gestural brushwork of my usual trees in landscapes. (See My Drive to the Studio.) I was interested in depicting the pink glow the blossoms made on the street and on the very ordinary cars parked beneath their proliferation. Peaking through as you went up the hill, you could see the tiny mansions further ahead on the hill through the flowers. I started with washes of colour and then built up multiple layers of spots to give the effect of a density of foliage.