O Rose Thou Art......a cliche?

 

I have a problem. I like painting flowers. Unfortunately, it's not exactly an unexplored niche, this flower painting.  How do you keep a flower painting fresh?

 I put little creatures and objects at the bottom of paintings of flowers, but that dilutes the power of the rose image.  Oooo! People coo over the little mice posing on the ledge or shudder at a beetle crawling up the side and disregard the the astounding, erotic, beautiful flower.  It vibrates in it's own field of color.

And the shape and the transparency of the petals.  Even the word "petal" is melting and delicate.  Some roses have little curly triangles for petals, others have notched and gently ribbed petals that all curve inward and hide its secret center.  Other roses are blowzy and amoral,  flopping open with petals that fall onto your hands.

 

I don't want to be another Georgia O'Keefe....she's  become a cliche herself, and I'm sure it would have distressed her. And I really don't like her paintings all that much.

I just want to stand in my garden in the late afternoon sun, watering my garden and drinking a beer and admiring my roses in all their much celebrated glory.  Then, if I feel like it,  go into my studio and whip up a few flowers on canvas or paper.  And, sell them to some nice person who loves flowers too and doesn't mind if they've been "done" since Paleolithic times.

Bliss.

Comments

[Dana Aldis]

Those are lovely. And I don't feel that yours are cliche.

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