"We once lived in the Cambridgeshire fen edge village of Burwell, near the fifteenth century church of St Mary the Virgin, which was highest point in the village. Across the road was a then-derelict house, the ancient site of Edeva the Fair, the owner all that land before 1066. When I lived nearby, the site was overrun with Japanese anemone. I've painted these several times over the past twelve years because I like their shape and lines, and because they seem almost like the stories and symbols of these ancient women (St Mary the Virgin and Edeva the Fair) rising out of the same earth." - Melanie Goemans