Two friends of mine have an art studio in a graveyard and it's wonderful. Helen keeps the old artificial flowers that visitors throw onto the rubbish pile when they refresh the flower displays and I thought this rather poignant and worthy of note. She used to work as a potter (she is now a painter) so it seemed a perfect solution to combine discarded flowers from the graves with living flowers from the beautiful garden they have established in the graveyard and to place them in some of Helen's ceramics. I painted two Everlasting Flowers (Helichrysum bracteatum or Xerochrysum bracteatum) because I loved the nuance of juxtaposing living 'eternal' flowers alongside the 'unliving' artificial flowers from the realm of the dead. Now Helen isn't making ceramics anymore I want to feature as many of her lovely creations as I can. I may do more of these drawings in due course-but they take a long time. Thank you to dear Irene and Helen for making this possible.