Flowers as Language
Contemporary floral paintings exploring memory, identity, resilience, and transformation.
A Series in Flowers is a body of large-scale oil paintings about self-perception, grief, beauty, and the freedom of taking up space. What begins as a bouquet becomes a meditation on becoming.
What the Dark Keeps
9 ft by 6 ft · oil on canvas · 2026
Available Paintings
The Imaginary Garden began as a conversation about possibility.
Inspired by time spent imagining impossible flowers, unexpected colors, and gardens that exist only in the mind, the painting embraces wonder, curiosity, and play. Unlike other works in A Series in Flowers that lean toward reflection and ambiguity, this piece moves toward imagination and optimism.
Flowers tumble and unfold across the canvas with a sense of freedom, unconcerned with realism or expectation. The painting celebrates the creative act itself: the ability to envision something that does not yet exist and bring it into being. The garden becomes a place where memory, invention, hope, and delight coexist.
Created in dialogue with the artist's son, the work carries a sense of openness and joy. It reflects the way children engage with the world before limitations are imposed, when possibilities feel endless and imagination becomes its own form of truth.
Within the series, The Imaginary Garden serves as a counterbalance to themes of grief and self-doubt. It is a reminder that taking up space can be playful, expansive, and filled with wonder. The painting invites viewers to reconnect with curiosity and to imagine what might grow when possibility is given room to flourish.
Artwork Specifications
60 × 48 inches
Original oil painting
Oil on canvas
Created 2025-2026
Signed by artist
Includes Certificate of Authenticity
One-of-a-kind artwork
Does not include frame, ready to hang on stretcher
Professionally packaged
Fully insured shipment
Shipping charged separately
Local pickup available upon request
Seen / Unseen asks a simple but complicated question: How much of ourselves is ever truly visible?
Layers of flowers, reflections, and shifting forms emerge and dissolve across the surface, mirroring the way identity is experienced in real life. We are constantly navigating the space between what we feel internally and what others are able to perceive. Some parts of ourselves remain visible and legible, while others stay hidden, protected, or difficult to name.
Throughout A Series in Flowers, reflection serves as both a visual device and a metaphor. In Seen / Unseen, the bouquet becomes a stand-in for the self, fragmented and layered, revealing itself only in pieces. Moments of clarity exist alongside ambiguity, creating a painting that rewards prolonged looking and invites multiple interpretations.
Rather than offering answers, the work embraces uncertainty. Forms appear, disappear, and reappear, much the way memory, identity, and self-understanding evolve over time. The painting becomes a meditation on perception, reminding us that what is visible is only part of the story.
At its heart, Seen / Unseen is about complexity. It honors the parts of ourselves that are openly shared and the parts that remain known only to us.
Artwork Specifications
Dimensions: 48 × 36 inches
Original oil painting
Oil on canvas
Year: 2025
Signed by artist
Includes Certificate of Authenticity
One-of-a-kind artwork
Professionally packaged
Fully insured shipment
Shipping charged separately
Local pickup available upon request
Does not include frame, ready to hang on stretcher
Mirror Bloom is a painting about growth, self-acceptance, and the ways we come to recognize ourselves over time.
Layers of flowers unfold across the canvas, opening outward with a sense of confidence and ease. Reflection plays a central role in the work, both literally and metaphorically, suggesting the distance between how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others. Forms appear, overlap, and echo one another, creating a visual language of becoming rather than arrival.
Throughout A Series in Flowers, flowers serve as stand-ins for emotional states, personal histories, and transformation. In Mirror Bloom, expansion becomes the subject. The blooms no longer apologize for their size or presence. Instead, they occupy space fully, becoming a meditation on confidence, visibility, and self-worth.
Painted at a monumental scale, Mirror Bloom was created to be lived with. The work shifts throughout the day as light moves across the surface, revealing layers of color, texture, and brushwork that reward prolonged looking.
At its heart, Mirror Bloom is a celebration of growth, not as perfection, but as the willingness to open, expand, and become more fully oneself.
Artwork Specifications
Original oil painting
60 × 48 inches
Oil on canvas
Created 2026
Signed by artist
Includes Certificate of Authenticity
Professionally packaged
Fully insured shipment
Shipping charged separately
Local pickup available upon request
Does not include frame
Comes mounted on stretcher
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