This painting came from the color and abundance of the Carlsbad Flower Fields, but also from a looser, more physical way of working. I remember slapping paint on and scraping paint off the background, letting the ranunculus fields take over the canvas. The blooms fill the 18 x 24 surface enlarged well past their natural scale with deep reds, magenta, purples, soft pinks, and coral against a luminous, textured teal background. The result is not a delicate floral study: it is nature at full volume, color and presence refusing to be quietly contained as they sway with the wind. The scale puts you among the flowers rather than above them, petals shimmering before the eye.
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