This painting focuses on a flower box that lights up the edge of the patio, set against the backdrop of the side yard fence. It’s a modest feature, but it carries a surprising amount of visual energy through layered color and structure. My wife has an intuitive sense for garden building and display, knowing exactly […]
Category: Garden Series
Yellow Flowers by the Fence
This painting comes from another corner of my wife’s backyard garden, where a mass of yellow flowers rises against the weathered fence. She is an expert gardener, and scenes like this are the result of years of knowledge, patience, and careful attention. What caught my eye here was the natural composition: tall yellow blooms lifting […]
Garden at Back Fence
This painting is based on my wife’s backyard garden — a space she has shaped and tended for years with patience, knowledge, and a great deal of quiet labor. She is an expert gardener, and only recently did it occur to me that her work deserved to be documented, not just enjoyed in passing. What […]
Garden with Roses
This garden study comes from the flowers my wife has tended with such care over the years. I’ve always admired her gardens, but only recently did it strike me that they offer endless painting subjects right outside our door. These roses were glowing in the afternoon light, rising above their bed of deep greens […]