Artist Statement: These two works are from a series of a dozen or so Oversized Botannical pastels I executed as meditations on plant and flower themes, inspired by the works of Rudolf Steiner (Goethe scholar, Waldorf School and Anthroposophy founder, artist-architect, all-around 19th/20th Century genius). The idea for the series was to make contact with and give expression to the “living force” veiled in plant forms. The over-scale size allows a more direct experience of the pure energy state of the flower – my real interest. In this series of work, I am also utilizing the plant forms as visual metaphors for subjective human energetic experiences.

The strong upward gesture and vivid yellows in The Spirit in the Plant demonstrate vitality and energy, inspired growth, solar striving and accomplishment.

In Transfiguration of a Hollyhock, I have depicted the Hollyhock in the process of “transfigurement” from merely an organic flower into great wings of angelic aspiration – which will allow the flower’s indwelling life-spirit (deva) to realize itself on a higher plane of consciousness. This piece, with its pale violets and whites, was intended to visually describe a particular state of sensitive, self-directed, spiritual evolution: the unfolding of and transition to a new level.