Flower in a Wilderness is connected to a particular landscape... related to Ringneill, on the shore of Strangford Lough...The flower is enclosed in what appears to be a shell or a hollow rock-like casing which prefigures the found natural objects that Middleton incorporated so inventively in later paintings. Out of this a flower appears in lyrical, colourful forms that suggest joy as well... http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/colin-middleton-rha-mbe-1910-1983-flower-in-th-41-c-85d4a6eb7d