Since his early childhood, the Hampshire-based British artist Nick Aston has been fascinated with plants. His experiences and expertise in this filed is expressed through his lively, color-filled art, the paintings themselves visual expressions of the artist’s botanical excursions. This effect is in part due to Aston’s use of real plant matter and dried flowers in his creative process. He spreads these across the canvas before applying layers of spray paint. The artworks therefore inherit the organic growth patterns of their botanical subjects, coming together in an unpredictable,