Hopeful Blooms

After coming out of a difficult personal winter season at the start of the year I was feeling creatively drained and yet needing the comfort and peace that painting provides. Uncertainty abound, I found myself retreating back to a comforting favorite, my abstract florals, but with the quench to translate them in a new and fresh way. This time much larger, with the subjects slightly more in focus than prior collections and on a deliciously textured handmade cotton rag paper. The abstract watercolor florals were a concept brought out of the inspiration of the cold, grey, and dreary time of year where snow finally gives way to rain and eventually beautiful blooms as the first signs of new life begin to emerge all around. This painting style and subject exploration is one that I started many years ago with the first official collection marking the public start of this venture here. The water marked rendering of each floral “bleeds” colors across the paper holding the tension of the elation of joy and tinge of sorrow in a hope filled and beautifully delicate way open to many interpretations of the subject.

This collection is done in watercolor on 12” x 12” hand made, acid free, deckled edge paper.