winter flowers

winter flowers in the studio....

“I must have flowers, always, and always”

— Claude Monet

banksia . banksia

“One looks,looks long, and the world comes in”

— Joseph Campbell

back to work! Into the last month of painting in the garden. Painting what I love most.

the last days of winter

the last days of winter .....working with paper........ inspired by nature

dusty landscapes

winter drawing in the garden with pastels . 

winter landscape

winter gathering

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”

— Andrew Wyeth