Mixed Bunch, 38x23 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Iris, 40x23 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Seventeen Tulips, 36x38 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Mixed Bouquet, 41x27 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Red Tulips, 39x26 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Twenty-six Tulips, 37x33 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Yellow Lillies, 41x32 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Orange Lilies, 42x23 inches, painted paper collage on Japanese gampi paper
Roses and Hydrangea, 38x22 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi
Working across painting, printmaking and collage, with this work I explore transience in contemporary life through the pervasive symbol of cut flowers. I push the vibrancy of color to be worthy of the reality of the beauty of a vase of simple cut flowers. Though appearing full of life, vased flowers are undeniably transient, cut from their life source and decaying.
The way I create is a rebellion against today’s all consuming virtual and busy-busy culture. I slow down, embracing tactile and colorful materiality, layer by layer. This series of still life collages built from 500 to more than 2000 of pieces of gouache-painted paper.