Flowers

“Whatever you do, don’t paint flowers! They’re cliché, overworked, over done, Sunday painters paint flowers, my grandmother can paint flowers…and she’s not an artist, not a suitable subject, no depth of purpose.” The list of “whynots”
could fill a page and yet secretly or not so secretly, a majority of artists worldwide use plants and flowers as subject matter. And suitable or not, we paint, sculpt and draw them with expressionistic flourish, in silhouetted form, as a color theorist or with the precision of a brain surgeon...