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For the Jo Malone London Spring Artist Series, she contributed a dream-like and playful study of nature and romance, consisting of a self-portrait set among a collage of wild florals. ‘At first, it was anything that I could get my hands on as no one was sending anything,’ says Summerton about her search for flowers during the lockdown. ‘And then a friend told me about a local florist, who had a cuttings patch that they grow themselves, which was a bit wilder and more interesting.’
Summerton also found herself foraging for wildflowers in and around the streets of Hampstead in London, where she lives: ‘There were these little wild yellow poppies growing on the street outside the post office. So yeah, I was picking flowers off the street.’ There were some, however, that were simply too precious to pluck: ‘There was a poppy that grew up through the cracks in the cement, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I felt it had worked so hard to exist in that situation, which to me is very poetic. It goes back to that thing of nature being in control.’