January Gallery Exhibit

So happy with the first wall I  hung at Artworks Gallery for 2017.

The Dipladenia  ( from the Mandeville family ) painting was in dire need of a name and a friend suggest Social Climber.  Thought it was a great name, so I am pleased to present "Social Climber" for the first time.  Thought the gold back ground of the orchids, "Dancing Ladies" made a nice companion, so planned around the gold influence in this lay out of my paintings.  

Hope you enjoy them.

Top Row: Flight of the Rufus, Original acrylic: Cello Music, Collage: Touching the Sky (inspired by Matisse's cut outs) Collage: Thinning Veils, Collage: From Small Wonders series,  Rose with Ladybug, Original acrylic: and Memories, Original acrylic.

Bottom  Row: Night Bird, Giclee: Social Climber, Acrylic original: Into the Mist, Acrylic original : Dancing Ladies, Collage: Orchids II, Giclee: 

Social Climber

This lovely vine in the Mandevilla family bloomed so beautifully last summer I had to paint it.  This is the Dipladenia variety, it's more bushing than the vining Mandevilla, although it is vining up a black wire trellis.

Social Climber
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 15

Walk through Paradise Garden

Working on something old.  Always like the composition, but didn't feel finished.  Liking it better, not sure it's finished.

Artworks Rotation

 Rotation today at the gallery.
Here are my fall walls.
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Sunlit

Finishing up summer paintings.

When I walk the lower level of my garden in the early morning I can look up and see the lilies on the wall with the sun shining through them.

Sunlit
Acrylic on 11 x 14 canvas

Echeveria

I've been working on this cactus that grew into a bush  and friends tell me it's in the Echeveria family.

It's been amazing to watch, but now if something were to happen to it I will have a painted memory.

Echeveria

Acrylic on 11 x 14 canvas.

Queen of the Garden

How could I pass up painting one of these gorgeous ladies from this summers garden?

Queen of the Garden

Acrylic and gloss gel 
 11 x 14 board.