The Rose Garden at the Ringling Museum: Fall 2016

The Ringling Museum rose garden is a very special place. Here are just a few of the beautiful flowers that I found there.

Our Visit to Longwood Gardens: A Fabulous Spot

Went to Longwood Gardens and became reacquainted with a marvelous place. The water lily exhibit  alone was worth the price of admission and surpassed the one I saw and admired at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Here are a few photos from our visit yesterday:

My Paintings of Flowers

Santa Fe Flowers for

Loren and Steve

I love color and mixing new colors. Sometimes, as one color over-laps another on the canvas a new color is serendipitously created that wasn't planned. That color will often find its way into another painting.

I often listen to classical music when I paint. The rhythms, sound, and emotions I hear impel me to create graceful curved forms in my paintings. I don't know the reason for this affect, just am aware as I choose what music to listen to, that it happens.

I enjoy growing, photographing, and then making paintings of the flowers in my garden. The paintings are not intended to be realistic, but are based on my fantasies of how the flowers look.

I make large paintings to show the monumental importance to me of the subjects. Large size also causes images to become abstract, and I think, more interesting. The gesture and motion of painting is also influenced in a good way with large size.

Paintings freeze subjects in time and we the viewers become the owners of both the subject and the moment. I love to work in winter with images of the flowers and colors we see in warm weather.

This bog also contains an entry of digital images of flowers and abstracts made from the digital images.  These may be found in sequence after the paintings.

Three Tiny Irises
Oil: 24" x 36
2016

Muriel's Pitcher Redux
Oil: 48" x 36"
2015

Water Lily
Oil:24"x 36"
2011

Two Small Irises
Oil: 58" x 34"
2010

Fat White Roses

24: x 36"

Fall 2011

Orchids

24" x 42"

Winter 2015

Orchids
oil: 18" x 24"
2014

Poppy
Oil: 40" x 32"
2011

White Orchids
Oil: 18" x 24"
2012

Another Water Lily
Oil :28" x 28"
2013

Two Petunias
Oil: 12" x 36"
2011

White Rose #5
Oil: 40" x 40
2010

Erica and Jason's Rose Redux
Oil: 36" x 48"
2009

Flower for My Mom
Oil 18" x 24"
2009

Orange Tulips
Oil: 18" x 24"
2009

Lily Bouquet
Oil: 24" x 24"
2010

Joie (for Erica and Jason)
Oil: 18" x 24"
2009

Fat Yellow Roses
Oil: 18" x 24"
2009

Muriel's Pitcher
Oil: 18" x 24"
2009

Peony
Oil: 36" x 36"
2008

Rosebud
Oil: 18" x 24"
2008

Pansies
Oil: 24" x 36"
2008

White Rose #5
Oil: 24" x 24"
2007

Red Rose
Oil: 36" x 36"
2007

White Rose #4
Oil: 36"  36"
2007

Lily with Confetti
Oil: 24" x 32"
2006/2009

Orchids
Oil: 36" x 36"
2014

Bougainvillea

Oil: 24" x 36"

2006

Purple Cone Flowers

OIl: 24" x 36"

2005

White Rose #3

Oil: 36" x 36"

2007

Magnolias, Kew Gardens

Oil: 24" x 36"

2005

Wild Rose

Oil: 36" x 36"

2006

Flowers at Kew Gardens

Oil: 24" x 36"

2005

Rudbeckia #2
Oil: 32" x 40"
2006

White Rose Redux

Oil: 18" x 18"

2010

Peony

Oil painting: 12" x 12"

Fall 2010

White Tiger Lily

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Rose of Sharon

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Gerbera Daisy

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

 2010

Hibiscus

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Dahlialala

Oil painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Small Hibiscus

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Water Lily

Oil Painting: 12" x 12"

2010

Yellow Rose

Oil: 36" x 36"

2006

Red Vase, Pink Roses

Oil Painting: 16" x 20"