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I’ve been experimenting with various types of native wildflower mixes. Initially the goal was to help the bees and butterflies but now I’m having so much fun painting the flowers that I can't stop planting more each year. [...]

As I get older I realize how much painting and gardening have in common. Both involve inspiration, imagination, planning, designing, creating, observing nature, learning from experience, dealing with challenges, and accepting imperfection. [...]

I started my first garden in a patch of dirt behind a shared rental house in Jamacia Plain, Massachusetts while a law student. The same year I bought myself a small portable watercolor set to record my first trip to Maine. Since then I’ve been painting outdoors and planting gardens each place I’ve lived (seven gardens so far). My growth as a gardener has paralleled my growth as an artist. Both involve learning from others and from experience, trial and error, successes and failures. [...]

Still life painting is a wonderful way to enjoy winter. It allows us to contemplate past gardens and dream of gardens to come. [...]

"In the Garden" expresses the joy we feel when outdoors in nature and reminds us of our connection to the earth. It speaks of our collective memories of past, perhaps simpler, ways of life. It serves as a tribute to gardeners and reminds us of our shared sense of beauty and color harmony across cultures and continents. [...]

I sometimes wonder if depicting beauty is enough for my art. There are so many alarming environmental crises surrounding us now. More than ever, I'd like to spotlight subjects of beauty that also benefit the planet. [...]

Returning on the second day, I immediately saw the completed painting in my mind.It would be a painting about hope after the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral. [...]