Earth’s green things delight me—identifying wildflowers, sauteing buttery dandelion buds, welcoming stowaway wild violets, grasping rich garden soil, and photographing flora life cycles. Nature was haven from childhood abuse and is oasis amid adult responsibility.
Nature’s roots run like veins throughout my life and, therefore, art.
The only time I strayed from my desire for color growing up was as a teenager, sketching chromatic pictures such as stamps and prints into the shades of greys using #2 pencils. It is always the challenge in my of trying to portray color through monochromatic variety, then, by light erasure, touch, and the pencil’s sharpness and today through deepening shadows, contrasting, and highlighting.
Nature’s roots run like veins throughout my life and, therefore, art.
Though many photographers chase light, I deepen shadows to contrast and highlight monochromatic, abstract, and impressionistic glassine reflections, flashing waterfalls, wildflower textures, and digital brushstrokes. Our dark hours are never void and neither are my shadowy backgrounds where curiosities abound, renewing my passion to preserve and share creation through life and art with friends, family, and generations to come.
- Created: July 2022
- Collections: Black and White Flora