Art by Wendy: Flowers and More Flowers

Sources of Inspiration:

I love color and mixing new colors. Sometimes, as one color over-laps another on the canvas a new color is serendipitously created that wasn't planned. That color will often find its way into another painting.

I often listen to classical music when I paint. The rhythms, sound, and emotions I hear impel me to create graceful curved forms in my paintings. I don't know the reason for this affect, just am aware as I choose what music to listen to, that it happens.

I enjoy growing, photographing, and then making paintings of the flowers in my garden. The paintings are not intended to be realistic, but are based on my fantasies of how the flowers look.

I make large paintings to show the monumental importance to me of the subjects. Large size also causes images to become abstract, and I think, more interesting. The gesture and motion of painting is also influenced in a good way with large size.

Paintings freeze subjects in time and we the viewers become the owners of both the subject and the moment. I love to work in winter with images of the flowers and colors we see in warm weather.