As an artist specializing in plants, I have the great good fortune of looking at them very closely. Here is an amazing thing one discovers; no two leaves of a plant are exactly alike, and every flower has a personality. I attempt to convey that uniqueness in every botanical painting I make. Traditionally, plants are painted on a white background, but I began to feel that this did not adequately portray the vivid images I was seeing. So now I include a little of the world in which a plant lives. My paintings are done in watercolor, as this medium best captures the characteristics of plants, the delicacy of petals. I build the color layer by layer ~ from light to dark. It is my intention to create paintings which please the eye up close and from a distance ~ paintings which endure over time and bring a sense of peace.