Purple - Thank Berry, Not Me!

A blackberry is never just one colour — held up to the light, it shifts through deep plum, midnight blue, and flashes of ruby where the sun catches its clustered surface. Purple leans into that shift. Foram paints the fruit not as a single fixed shade but as a moving spectrum, each drupelet rendered in its own tone, built up in bold, expressive strokes that feel more sculptural than botanical.

This piece continues Foram's ongoing exploration of everyday fruit as subject, treating something so easily overlooked with real weight and presence on the paper. Behind the blackberry, the garden opens out in soft, hazy brushwork — a familiar backdrop drawn from the artist's own outdoor space, grounding the piece in a sense of place even as the fruit itself takes on an almost abstract quality.

Rich in tone and texture, Purple sits at the meeting point of observation and imagination — a study in how much colour can live inside something so small.