Flowers and plants are the truly perfect organisms, needing only sunlight and water and freedom from harm. That is why my paintings are figuratively and literally about them. When I paint a picture without them I usually add them.

They are so miraculous, in the form and colors, I wanted to exhibit my love for them.

I have gotten into garden design because I wanted to learn what I was painting, be around botany, and I feel so good when I garden.

Being a city person in the 1970’s, I had to learn to be a “flower child,” and took the required horticulture courses when I was getting my Masters in Art in painting.

I have been painting now for forty years, and have a body of work of native plants, “deer-proof” plants, and my trademark plant, Acidanthera Muriellae.