For the summer of 2024, I purchased 10 buckets of locally grown flowers from Amber at Hardscrabble Farm with each bunch being delivered every two weeks to our doorstep. Amber came up with the offer in February and I knew this was just what I needed - a Summer of Flower series. Each still life painting is on fine linen over a Baltic birch wood 1/4 inch substrate using acrylic grounds or underpaintings and walnut oil for the final overpainting. The surface is gorgeous to paint on and brings out the vibrancy of the flowers to their best advantage. The paintings have been completed from life in natural lighting.
Thriving in Place is to fully live, grow and evolve right where I am. It is to honour the desire and ability to reach deep beneath the surface of all aspects of our natural world in my painting practice with revelry. I rejoice in what each day offers close to home on our small island off the southwest coast of Canada. Thriving in Place is a celebration of my everyday and the ordinary. I have enough and I am enough, today, with where I am and who I am. Methods and approaches will vary while my intention holds steady. These Thriving in Place paintings come from here and they invite you into the same practice for living.
