“A landscape that calls to you every once in a while is like a good friend you encounter periodically. Each encounter, sometimes years apart, allows you to rediscover what endears them to you, not only to renew your bonds but to also discover a newness that the changes of time has brought.

These relationships can go on for a lifetime. Thus it has been with the Philipsburg Flamboyant and its majestic blooms. I first painted it in the early 1990’s and “Balmy Day” was painted almost 30 years later - a new old friend.”

- Sir Roland Richardson