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.
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| Three Tiny Irises Oil: 24" x 36 2016 |
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| Muriel's Pitcher Redux Oil: 48" x 36" 2015 |
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| Water Lily Oil:24"x 36" 2011 |
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| Two Small Irises Oil: 58" x 34" 2010 |
Fat White Roses
24: x 36"
Fall 2011
Orchids
24" x 42"
Winter 2015
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| Orchids oil: 18" x 24" 2014 |
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| Poppy Oil: 40" x 32" 2011 |
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| White Orchids Oil: 18" x 24" 2012 |
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| Another Water Lily Oil :28" x 28" 2013 |
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| Two Petunias Oil: 12" x 36" 2011 |
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| White Rose #5 Oil: 40" x 40 2010 |
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| Erica and Jason's Rose Redux Oil: 36" x 48" 2009 |
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| Flower for My Mom Oil 18" x 24" 2009 |
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| Orange Tulips Oil: 18" x 24" 2009 |
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| Lily Bouquet Oil: 24" x 24" 2010 |
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| Joie (for Erica and Jason) Oil: 18" x 24" 2009 |
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| Fat Yellow Roses Oil: 18" x 24" 2009 |
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| Muriel's Pitcher Oil: 18" x 24" 2009 |
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| Peony Oil: 36" x 36" 2008 |
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| Rosebud Oil: 18" x 24" 2008 |
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| Pansies Oil: 24" x 36" 2008 |
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| White Rose #5 Oil: 24" x 24" 2007 |
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| Red Rose Oil: 36" x 36" 2007 |
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| White Rose #4 Oil: 36" 36" 2007 |
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| Lily with Confetti Oil: 24" x 32" 2006/2009 |
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| Orchids Oil: 36" x 36" 2014 |
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Bougainvillea
Oil: 24" x 36"
2006
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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
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| 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
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Yellow Rose
Oil: 36" x 36"
2006
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Red Vase, Pink Roses
Oil Painting: 16" x 20"
