Dried Rose – 19

“Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.”

Philip James Bailey

Godetia Series – 2

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”

Rose Kennedy

Iris Series – 30

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

Albert Einstein

Lisianthus Series – 12

“To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.”

Beverley Nichols

Godetia Series – 1

“You always have to remember – no matter what you’re told – that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.”

Cyndi Lauper

Iris Series – 29

“Band of iris-flowers
above the waves,
you are painted blue,
painted like a fresh prow
stained among the salt weeds.”

Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), U.S. poet. “Sea Iris.”

Rose Series – 65

“‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.”

Thomas More

Rose Series – 64

“The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we’re lucky, we all have at least one.”

Roberta Smith

A Tulip Emerges – 61

“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”

Andrew Marvell

Anemone Series – 6

“I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.”

Robert Mapplethorpe