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22"h X 30"w. Oil on canvas.
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Echinacea |
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With a keen interest in horticulture since his childhood, painting flora - both native and adapted - brings reflection for the artist. Many times a bloom symbolizes a given culture or a place, having even greater meaning to those who encounter it while separated from home, or during a lost sense of belonging. The inspiration for this picture came from a visit to the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens near the Cultural District. It illustrates the symbiotic relationship between insect (the orange butterfly) and the purple coneflowers in bloom during summer. |
HYACINTH SERIES |
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Red Hyacinth (detail). 16"h X 19"w. Oil on canvas.
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Pink Hyacinth. 15"h X 9"w.
Oil on canvas.
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The hyacinth paintings are mostly studies.
While working on them, the painter developed his technique of
building layers up from the surface of the canvas.
Subsequently, the technique was also applied to the landscapes
painted some years later. The hyacynths, however,
are more abstract; the brushstroke pattern is looser,
resembling late nineteenth century Expressionist
painting with high volume color and thick paint layers
to create an active surface and charged atmosphere.
These blooms are from winter bulbs that grow indoors by "forcing." Under the right conditions, these Dutch bulbs bloom indoors in the dead of winter - a popular method meant to brighten a drab season when little else blooms. This painting approach is not meant to recreate nature, rather it serves as a point of departure. An independent vocabulary of paint strokes emerges as a separate reality. It's also acknowledging similar styles which have long preceded it. Like a cultivated species, it is another generation in a lineage. |
Salmon Hyacinth (detail). 16"h X 12"w. Oil on canvas.
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Red and Violet Hyacinths (detail). 20"h X 14"w. Oil on canvas.
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Yellow Canna, Summer.
12"h X 9"w.
Oil on canvas paper.
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Las Flores de Mi Jardin, el Verano.
12"h X 9"w.
Oil on primed paper.
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| The artist's lifelong fondness of various blooms: A "teddy bear" sunflower, bachelor buttons, and red cosmos, all bloom in the garden in tandem. |
Rosa Roja Grande.
16"h X 13"w.
Oil on canvas.
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