Flower Power
This painting, acquired by the City of Raleigh's Municipal Collection, was part of the artist's 2024 exhibition, Motif: Museum as Studio at the historical Stanley-Whitman House Museum. It is about how flowers find their way from garden to design in carved, woven, glazed and pressed motifs. The artist created a question: Will you enter the 17th and 18th c. garden and the historic inside spaces differently after seeing a body of work inspired by it? Her paintings stand in for planting beds. There’s a play on scale, flowers are face to face with the viewer. Design motifs, separated from their original context, are transformed by the medium of printmaking . An historical collection of pressed leaves is honored by the art of the herbarium. Stanley-Whitman House Museum served as an artist studio as the artist delved into the process of creating a body of work for the exhibition. Field notes, botanical sketches, and compositional studies were produced as she made a study of the historic gardens, museum collections, and archives.