The Tender Trap

POISON GARDEN. HEALING OR DEADLY series

Watercolour

62 cm x 76 cm (framed)

48 cm x 56 cm (unframed

Piercing through dark soil, a narcissus shoot emerges as a symbol of rebirth and concealed danger. Whilst its flower signals the arrival of spring, beneath the earth its bulb contains a silent poison.

In Agatha Christie’s world, this contrast reflects the deceptive nature of crime: beneath an innocent appearance lies something far more dangerous. As the shoot breaks through the soil, it also becomes a symbol of truth emerging from the darkness of death.

The Silver Antidote

POISON GARDEN. HEALING OR DEADLY series

Watercolour

62 cm x 76 cm (framed)

48 cm x 56 cm (unframed

Inspired by the dark pharmaceutical world of Agatha Christie, ‘The Silver Antidote’ is a symbolic exploration of purity triumphing over toxicity.A bleak tangle of black and grey roots, resembling waste pipes, courses through deep indigo waters where the magic of transformation takes place. Defying this volatile environment, a fragile, soft-green shoot breaks through, transmuting the venomous surroundings into a magical bloom of delicate silver flowers. The artwork serves as an allegory for inner strength—an ability to refine darkness and decay into a noble, living cure for a toxic world.

The Rose & The Yew

Watercolour

68cm x 95 cm (framed)

54 cm x 75cm (unframed)

“The Rose and the Yew” explores the profound dualities woven into human existence. The monumental rose becomes a symbol of love in all its fleeting beauty—radiant, delicate, and destined to fade. In contrast, the ancient yew, an enduring presence in British churchyards, evokes mortality, memory, and the mystery of eternity.

Beneath its shadowed, poisonous canopy, the ghostly silhouette of a First World War nurse emerges, quietly evoking Agatha Christie’s formative years and her wartime experience. Suspended between life and death, beauty and decay, the human and the eternal, these contrasting symbols reflect the very essence of Christie’s creative universe: a world in which the fragility of life is inseparable from the enduring enigma of death.

The Alchemy of Plot

POISON GARDEN. HEALING OR DEADLY series

Watercolour

62 cm x 76 cm (framed)

48 cm x 56 cm (unframed

“The Alchemy of Plot” presents Agatha Christie as the ultimate alchemist of crime fiction. Standing as a shadow and a guide at the gates of the Poison Garden, she beckons the viewer into her world. The tangled roots evoke the winding complexity of her storylines, while the bold red poppy stands as a symbol of both medicine and murder. Just as morphine is extracted and crystallised from the poppy, Christie refines raw human secrets into flawlessly measured, deadly precise plots.

Potent Silhouette

POISON GARDEN. HEALING OR DEADLY series

Watercolour

62 cm x 76 cm (framed)

48 cm x 56 cm (unframed

This surreal composition pays tribute to Agatha Christie’s botanical inspirations at Torquay's Torre Abbey. By distorting scale to pit monumental foxglove stalks against a tiny architectural outline, the artwork visualises the overwhelming, dominant power of the Poison Garden over human history and structures.

A Grain of Fate

POISON GARDEN. HEALING OR DEADLY series

Watercolour

62 cm x 76 cm (framed)

48 cm x 56 cm (unframed

Inspired by Agatha Christie’s clinical expertise as a wartime apothecary, this piece explores the fragile boundary between medicine and poison. Suspended on a pair of vintage dispensing scales are two of nature's most formidable creations: foxgloves (the source of heart-saving yet heart-stopping digitalis) and monkshood (the lethal "queen of poisons").

The title plays on the word "Grain"—the smallest unit in the old apothecary weight system (~0,064 grams). Here, it represents the literal tipping point of existence. In nature, as in a classic murder mystery, life and death do not hang on a grand gesture, but on the silent, microscopic weight of a single dose.

The Fairy’s Thimble

Watercolour

14 cm x 24cm (framed)

38 cm x 46 cm (unframed

“The Fairy’s Thimble” evokes the meeting of childhood innocence, curiosity and the unknown. Among foxgloves, a young Agatha creates imaginary potions, beginning a lifelong fascination with nature and the mysteries of human behaviour. The coloured bottles become symbols of discovery—a journey into the shadows of human nature, not to remain in darkness, but to understand it, and through understanding, find the light.