I’m the first to say I love the rain, but there comes a time in our sort of climate when a familiar gloom sets in. The gray and the damp shadow our every step, even the most hardy of Vancouverites longs for the brightness, the sunshine, the golden saturation of sunflowers, the perfume of lilies, the long languid warmth of summer.
Every year I’m very fortunate to spend my birthday with my family in the gardens at Kew in London. This July, as I walked round the beds of tall, lush, jewel-like flowers, taking picture after picture, I slowly became aware of the word “Eden”.
I imagine walking here in close communion with beauty and grace, in the warmth of the sunshine again and again.
I knew I had to paint the flowers. Big bold, expressive blooms that draw the viewer in, that seduce and beguile in the pink light of summer.
I started several of these paintings in England. In my small studio at West Cottage the ideas came naturally and quickly. By the end of the summer I had seven canvases to fly to Canada with.
The garden has given me an inexhaustible source of inspiration for which I’m grateful. It is my hope to fill the walls of the gallery with light and colour. It is my pleasure to share this inspiration with you through my paintings.
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Esther Bradley-DeTally
your paintings are lush – you are talented in so many ways
Veronica
Thank you Esther, you are so sweet to say that. 🙂
garybuie01
Well, here I am! What beautiful paintings, the colours are so vibrant and the flowers themselves are so cheerful! Are these in oil? Where did you learn to paint? I look forward to wandering around you blog more fully!
Christine
Veronica
Thank you Christine. 🙂 These are in oils. I had an aunt who was a very good painter and she loved me and let me muck about with her oils since I was so very little. I guess she taught me. I always travel with my little art kit, (water colour pencils, pencils, ink) and used to bring my oils with me from Vancouver to OXON and back again but last year I bought a huge amount off ebay.uk and so now have oils in both places. It’s funny, the person who’s oils I bought here in England used slightly different colours than I’m confortable with so it’s been an adventure. 🙂
thotlady
So beautiful.
Veronica
Hi Thot Lady. Thank you so much. You make me want to update this part of my site with new work. I really should stop being so lazy and get that done. 🙂
Terri
Hello Veronica,
I am so glad I found this page. Your art here is so expressive! There is movement in your paintings. I think they are wonderful! You must have had many enjoyable hours painting these! Might you share more of your art with us?
Hugs,
Terri
Veronica
Gosh Terri, thank you. 🙂 I will post more art with tea cups then. 🙂
elissa field
Your work is so beautiful, Veronica. Such great perspective and color and light. I’m glad I found this page.
Veronica
Hi Elissa, thank you so much. I should really update my pages. 🙂
acuriousgal
Just love your paintings!!
Veronica
Thank you so much Barb. 🙂
victoria
Super gorgeous art….they all embody such visual intensity and also carry a deeply serene energy for me too..they truly feel like meditations and poems to me . Beautiful!
Victoria
Veronica
Hi Victoria, how lovely for you to visit me. Thank you so much. 🙂
Michelle
Your paintings are beautiful, Veronica. I don’t know how to praise art without sounding silly, but I really enjoyed seeing these, so I’ll try. I love the watery, swirling background to your flowers. It’s the perfect amount of contrast. Some of the blooms look as if they are swaying in a breeze. And the shifts in saturation from stem to tip are so lovely. Ugh I do sound silly, but I mean it.