In the ‘Primroses’ series, Brian Clarke paints abstracted primroses. Primroses have particular personal significance for Clarke, conjuring his student years in the bucolic Devon countryside. Clarke explained in 2014:

‘Painting these made me calm. I noticed that what first seems like a random structure within one flower appears repeated in a cluster of primroses. With my limited knowledge of science and physics it has become apparent that decoration or pattern exists in the fundamental fabric of everything. There is order to chaos.’