Florals & Still Life

~ Original oil paintings and graphite pencil drawings of flowers, fruit, plants, and still life ~
~ Flowers include iris, calla lily, tulip, clematis, rose, orchid, cyclamen, and more. ~
(See also Girl with Magnolia Blossom on the Portraits & Figurative Works page.)

Calla Lily from My Mother's Garden, 2011.
Oil on canvas, 4" x 5".
Original painting available in my Etsy shop: $125.
Greeting cards available in my print shop.

Purple Iris from My Mother's Garden, 2011.
Oil on canvas, 12" x 12".
Original painting available in my Etsy shop: $195.
Giclée prints & greeting cards available in my print shop.

Clematis Blossom on the Vine, 2010.
Pencil on paper, 5" x 8". $45.
Available in my Etsy shop

Tulip, 2011.
Pencil with wash on paper, 9" x 12". $25.
Available in my Etsy shop

symbolic oil painting of woman entwined with rose stems, close-up roses in background

Deceived, 1994. Oil on canvas, 24" x 36".
Original painting available in my Etsy shop: $395.
Giclée prints & greeting cards available in my print shop.

symbolic oil painting with silhouette of woman in a rose

Woman in Rose, 1988. Oil on canvas, 30 x 36". $295.
Available in my Etsy Shop

Cyclamen Blossoms, 1987. Pencil on paper, 9" x 12". $25.
Available in my Etsy Shop

Orchid, 1987. Pencil on paper, 14" x 17". $25.
Available in my Etsy Shop

"If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this."

--James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

"Just as the farmer provides sustenance for the body, the painter provides sustenance for the soul."

--Arturo Tello

To paint the wild romantic dream,
That meets the poet's musing eye. . . .

--Ann Radcliffe, from "To Melancholy,"
in The Mysteries of Udopho (1794)

"For don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted -- better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out."

--Robert Browning (1812-1889), from "Fra Lippo Lippi"

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Oh! the joy
Of young ideas, painted on the mind
In the warm glowing colours fancy spreads
On objects not yet known, when all is new,
And all is lovely!

--from "David and Goliath," in Sacred Dramas, (1782) by Hannah More

Let fate do her worst, there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of the past which she cannot destroy,
Which come in the night time of sorrow and care
And bring back the features which love used to wear.
Long, long be my heart with such memories filled,
Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled -
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

--Thomas Moore (1779-1852), from
"Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome the Hour"