I used to live on the Marchmont estate and had previously explored and painted the old glasshouses there, so I was really pleased to be asked by the owner Hugo Burge to revisit them for a commission in 2017. The glasshouses were about to be restored as part of the ongoing renovation of Marchmont house and the estate, so it was really special to be able to make a record them in their state of wild and overgrown decay. I made three paintings of the glasshouses, two of which are now in the Marchmont collection.