This oil painting is a lush floral still-life filled to the brim with all the flowers that bloom in May.
Read MoreThis painting has everything I love to paint, beautiful flowers, a jade ginger jar, and blue willow plates. When putting this painting together, I kept thinking about a quiet evening at home.
Read MoreIce Follies narcissus are one of the two cultivars of daffodils that are earliest to bloom in the garden each spring.
Read MoreThis painting of dahlias in a soft glazed bowl in front of a vintage blue and white quilt is an expression of a quiet moment on a sunny afternoon. To me, the essence of the art of slow living.
Read MorePeaches and Quilt
Whenever I want to revel in color and luscious and thick paint, I paint peaches. There is something so warm and yummy about painting peaches.
Emotionally peaches remind me of summer and my grandfather
Read MoreSunburst Lemon Aura Sunflower
A lovely new hybrid sunflower growing in my garden this summer.
Read More"Sisa" Dahlias
It is always exciting when flowers I dreamed about and ordered in the spring begin blooming. This year I ordered 23 different dahlia tubers, and the variety "Sisa" is the first to really take off and bloom for me.
Read MoreRingtone and Flower Record Daffodils
In my quest to always paint the flowers that I grow in my garden, about three years ago, I began reading more about gardening. The magazine that has had the most influence on me in the last few years is the British periodical, "Gardens Illustrated" and as a result of religiously reading this magazine from cover to cover, I have begun to realize how helpful it is to use the correct names for the different plants and flowers I grow.
Read MorePeonies Festiva Maxima and Flower Bud
This is a painting I began on my own in the studio, and then demonstrated to my Saturday morning students how I finish a piece. Sometimes this final phase where I am tying up loose ends and trying to unify a piece can take extra time to resolve. So after the 3-hour class was over, I continued on a bit more adding the finishing touches.
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