Floral Paintings

The first five paintings below were inspired by flowers in our garden at home. They are not meant to be photographic . Instead I was working with design and color , aiming to create new compositions that I enjoyed. They provided a much needed escape for me during this time that the corona pandemic has had me primarily in my house for close to 5 months!

FLORAL IMAGES

"Amaryllis 2015"

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"Ardor of the Amaryllis"
watercolor   22" x 30"

This Painting was selected by the jurors to be shown in the VMRC's Eighth Annual Juried Art Exhibition 2011
VMRC Park Gables Main Street Gallery
May 29-June 30, 2011

First Painting Completed in 2012
"Amaryllis Tied up in Ribbons"

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This painting has been in the works throughout the duration of my holiday vacation. It began when the red amaryllis bulb first flowered. That one is an actual plant I've tended for several weeks. The White bloom is non-existent. I may have drawn it from the same plant, rotating it to different angles. Can't recall. Somehow it must have magically shown up on the page. There are four pots in a basket holding amaryllis bulbs of varied colors this year. Now I'm awaiting the opening of the other flowers...almost ready, so I can paint them too.

Scarlet Papaver Allegra

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Giant Hibiscus 2010 "Hardy Zone 4"

More Floral Paintings


"Amaryllis Unfolding"     
22"x 30"   watercolor










"I find myself searching for the right form for its expression, and trying to pin down, in my own mind, just what it is that I need to say about the subject. What is essential? What do I feel? What qualities does the subject have that define it? How can I, first of all, express it through line, shapes, color, texture, and a point of view that captures the subject, and can convey it to the world?

More Floral Paintings


"Amaryllis Unfolding"     
22"x 30"   watercolor










"I find myself searching for the right form for its expression, and trying to pin down, in my own mind, just what it is that I need to say about the subject. What is essential? What do I feel? What qualities does the subject have that define it? How can I, first of all, express it through line, shapes, color, texture, and a point of view that captures the subject, and can convey it to the world?

"Bloomin' Amaryllis"   22"x 30" watercolor

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A birthday gift to me this February, from my good friend Maryann, this amaryllis plant  was given to me in the Winter of the first year I can remember during which I had not purchased even one amaryllis bulb. Usually I grow a few and have varied colors and types of grandiose blooms in my kitchen, which I paint as watercolor pieces. This deep pink blossom was so enthralling that I had to go to work on a painting to remember it by as soon as it flowered. In the end I had combined it with images and extracts from some of my best loved flowers of the past. Now I've got a Bloomin' garden!!!

"Amaryllis In Season"
22"x 30" watercolor

Amaryllis, one of the subjects that  that entrances me in the Winter Season

 "Amaryllis Duet"
22"x 30" watercolor

Another interpretation of my touchstone, the annual amaryllis. I hope I never tire of its beauty.

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 "Bronzed Lilies"   watercolor   22"x 30"

My working process is about letting the idea and imagery lead me from the painting's inception. I recognize that with each new project, there is a particular way that it needs to be expressed, that is integral to its nature. I need to find the place within me that connects, in a way that I share one-ness with the inspiration, creating the image that evolves.

"Jimson Weeds of the Foothills"    watercolor    22"x 30"

 

The painting process, for me, is the way I find to get to the heart of what's compelling about the subject to me, and describe it for myself....to pin it down. Thereby, to convey its essence to the viewer.