Bloom16

Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Bright, Bold Bloomin' Bouquets. Indoors or out, the blossoms bring bursts of colour, fragrance, and joy. A beautiful coffee date thank you.

Dimensions: 21 x 17 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: A still life of a curved vase and slowly changing cut sunflowers.

Dimensions: 11 x 15 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: This scene caught my eye when visiting Taquile Island, on Lake Titicaca in Peru. The bright geraniums, the sun-baked wall, the clay jug and the hanging passion fruit vine were all contrasted beautifully against the blue of the sky.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: and Linda Kirstein. -- The subtle beauty of white tulips provides a transition from snow to spring.

Dimensions: 20 x 24
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Bursting Bloom was a freeing and flowing experience using a large brush with sweeping bright colours.

Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Fragile poppy petals, painted in a softly feminine palette, flutter in the breeze in this abstracted landscape.

Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: The appearance of Camas in the spring is a cause for celebration, not only for its beauty and hardiness, but as a welcome food source for the Salish First Nations People.

Dimensions: 15 x 20.5 x 4
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: In this piece, two of my favoritie mediums -Polymer Clay and Feltwork- work together where one encompasses and nestles the other. The felt supporting the polymer and allowing it to bloom.

Dimensions: 24 x 20 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: I love painting inside closes up of flowers the shapes are so organic.

Dimensions: 14 x 20 x 2
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Watercolours look interesting on canvas. It goes well with flowers.

Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Dahlias come in all forms, but these exude energy and flamboyance . I used a palette knife to free up my mark making and keep the painting loose.

Dimensions: 19 x 14 x 2.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Flowers to me bring joy - their bright colours and beauty automatically lift my mood. I wanted to bring together a bouquet that could be admired all year long.

Dimensions: 30 x 23 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: This beautiful rhodo, officially called Unique, sits on the corner of my patio and comes out in dark pink buds and slowly turns white when finally fully in bloom. Every year, this is a beautiful process to watch.

Dimensions: 28 x 21 x 1
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Romneya poppies are the most magical flowers to paint for an watercolourist. As we don't use white, we can play with all the shadows and create the texture of a white flower. They are large and joyful flowers, dancing in the air.

Dimensions: 10 x 14
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Of all birds, Hummingbirds seem to have an otherworldly quality to them. They flit about like fairies and they reflect the sun on their dazzling throat feathers. I think if a hummingbird were to live in a seashell it would be pick an abalone shell, and if it were to have a favourite flower, it would be sweet peas.

Dimensions: 30 x 24
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: We are all interconnected. We are all made of the things we consume. The butterflies pollinate the flowers that feed the bees that feed the birds that eat the fish which swim around the abalones that nestle in the bottom of the sea. What would it look like if we could see that interconnectedness with our eyes?

Dimensions: 24 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Intentional abstract photography such as this ICM technique (intentional camera movement) offers me the opportunity to bend the reality of what is visible and transform it into a sentiment that feels surreal and dream like. Techniques such as this one give me the privilege of truly painting with light. It is an opportunity to step away from the habitual realism expected from photography.

Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: I just love seeing these Hellebores popping up in gardens at the end of winter. They remind me that change is just around the corner.

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: When I pause for lunch at my studio, I go outside to sit by the edge of the Lagoon shore. In the summer the Queen Anne's Lace is hip deep and dancing a quite, mystical dance to the sounds of the birds and wind. I'm spellbound!

Dimensions: 47 x 39 x 0.5
Inspiration/Statement - to appear on wall card: Come spring, Victoria becomes an explosion of colour as flowers and tree blossoms bloom. I was admiring the flowers along the Inner Harbour and knew I wanted to capture their beauty on canvas. The painting ended up being my largest and most rewarding piece to date.