November 11 is a day for remembrance and two local artists chose the day to launch their exhibition of painted and ceramic flowers. 

“We think flowers relate to special times that we remember,” sculpture Suzie O’Shea said. “And today we remember.” 

The exhibition at Dudley House is called People Remember – the same title given to Carolyn Maher’s painting of a single red poppy.

“The single poppy signifies the singularity of a soldier,” Maher said. “Just as a field of poppies symbolises a fallen army, a single poppy is about focusing on an individual.”

O’Shea’s sculptures of flowery frocks had names like ‘Rosie’ – which she described as an “easy birth”. 

“Originally I had a very different plan for Rosie, but she moved into that shape all by herself and it seemed a shame to alter her.

“I’m increasingly allowing clay just to be itself.”