Wild flower paintings
This series is Inspired by the wild compositions created by Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. I consider his gardens to be a living breathing painting. They are rich with surprising colours and shapes overlapping and enhancing each other. I could stare at the year round, ever changing beauty of his gardens forever, never becoming bored. I became obsessed with trying to translate the organic, wild beauty of of his, and many other of my favourite gardens into paint. I worked to figure out how to best capture the ephemeral magic of plants on canvas. I discovered that the paintings turned out best when I tried not to overthink each brush stroke or force perfection. I get into the flow and allow surprises to happen, in hopes that each painting in this series can achieve the same spontaneous feel of living nature.
Plant portraits
Inspired by a client who asked if they could commission me to paint a portrait not of their child, but of their garden I started to think about how I could extend portraiture to the botanical world. After all, like humans plants are alive, they respond to care, to the climate and grow and change along with us. This started a new series I titled plant portraits, where I seeked out and approached painting plants the same way I would a human - capturing their ephemeral character in a particular moment of time.
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