Art
In her early years, Flora Scales painted landscapes, seascapes, boats, and other rural work and activities. In her more mature work, she continue to paint the places she lived and the natural environment around her: landscapes, interior still lifes, studies of flowers, and a few portraits. Throughout her life, she loved to paint outdoors. Her paintings from the 1930s in and around the Mediterranean show villages overlooking the sea, often framed, or interrupted, by trees and fields, and empty of people. In later work, the structures in her paintings become less distinct, and a building is often rendered by a few loose brushstrokes that melt into its surroundings. For example, Church at Bry-sur-Marne from 1960, where the spire of a church is subtly suggested by the cone of grey paint in the background. Or, Boarding House, St Ives, Cornwall (1968–1970), where the white boarding house blends with the sea and rock around it. Scales would paint multiple paintings of a subject or scene, taken from different angles, and exploring different compositions and palettes. For example, she painted a series of works about a plum orchard in Bry-sur-Marne in France, between 1969 and 1970. Though they were painted in the same location, and there are some shared motifs (a V form recurs), these paintings are very different from each other, and demonstrate Scales's varied visual vocabulary and continued experimentation with form, colour, and light. ==Influence==