watercolor on panel $550
“My art life is a refuge from the pandemic. In this place are fantasy flowers
of my own invention, sometimes based on reality.
These blue hibiscus were actually inspired by the Kula jacaranda trees.
One positive of the timing of the shut down was that is was Spring.
And this was an especially prolific and long blooming season for the jacarandas –
those unmistakably showy blue-lavender denizens of Upcountry Maui.
I took on the challenge of achieving the liquid look of watercolor
on the wood panel using a special substrate and sealer.
We are all flowers, or ‘pua’ in the Hawaiian language,
and I feel like we are floating, not quite touching, existing in space right now.”
