Having faces of their own

For a long while I have been painting landscapes,  then a fascination began with adding color to my mostly mono chromatic approach.  Painting still lives, using pears and apples as subject matter emerged, using a limited Zorn palette.  I can’t say that I’m tired of painting them.  It has been said that if you can paint an apple, you can paint anything.  Well, there might be truth in that, as I still find them challenging to paint, even though I’ve painted many.

The single flower head is in a sense an apple with edges, petals and leaves.

I enjoy the twists and turns of edges, petals, stems and leaves.  It is the fragility of flowers, coupled with their ephemeral beauty, delicate nature and striking color that amplify drama. Their fleeting existence triggers urgency, a metaphor for life or a self portrait.

“White…is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black…God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — G. K. Chesterton