“As a featured artist for the South Dakota Florist Association for four years, I was commissioned to do a painting of the pasque each year, which provided the background for this painting. Transparent watercolor is the perfect medium for floral — beginning with a wet-in-wet technique and then progressive glazes until the subject emerges. I also enjoy adding acrylic, pen and ink, and oriental paper collage techniques to my paintings. The combination of these mediums with watercolor allows texture and vivid detail to develop, whatever the subject matter — floral or landscape, abstract, or realistic.”