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    Why Flowers?

    Before I started painting again, I enjoyed filling my house with fresh cut flowers every week but felt bad every time I had to throw away the dying bouquets. I do love the occasional cut flowers, but I’m finally improving my track record with potted plants, and for flowers, I have paintings everywhere now – brilliant bouquets that don’t fade and die. In my mind, as far as décor goes, there’s room for flowers everywhere. They are also a flexible subject, which encourages vast freedom of creativity. In the words of one of my favorite artists in England, Imogen Skelley, in her correspondence with me,  “A vase of flowers is…

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    Getting Started

    My house did not feel like home, with its dark walls paired with blinds drawn against the Florida heat. I was always trying to brighten the place up. The focal point of the living room was a heavy, gray stone fireplace with a dark, wooden mantle. It needed color, but I didn’t want to drill into the stonework in this rented house. I decided to paint a big, bright bouquet that would never wilt, that complimented the colors of my living room, and that would gracefully sit on the mantle and lean against the chimney. For the past ten years, my artistic expression was limited to the kitchen. This was…