Some of your meadow shots remind me of the “pointillism” style of painting where images are built up using only tiny dots. Kind of a pre-tech version of pixels and a reflection of how our rods and cones actually send their signals up the optic nerve. Your paintings have a structure that resonates with all that. Kind of revealing the “buzzing blooming confusion” (William James) of the natural world. Thanks for sharing your beautiful world, Sam. Here are some flowers for you from southern California USA ⬇️
Gorgeous, Baird! Yes, I am thinking about how the eye sees and mixes colours. I love that phrase "buzzing blooming confusion'! I often think of a line from a poem by Don Domanski 'the biosignatures of invisibilia filling the air'...it gives me such a sense of the air as a living field we move within, that we miss in our blundering distraction.
Thank you for the beautifully cooling photos Sam... we are a UK sweltering 30+ degrees in Kent today. I have a bowl of late Peonies and Alliums on my table outside, left over from a birthday bouquet! My abundant garden is framing them - and today, the first Day Lily popped out. I manage to keep my small garden going with the rainwater and there is plenty of green and wild.
Its difficult to photograph wild meadow flowers - yours look magical.
Ah, beautiful peonies. There is one that grows near here, right by the sea, but tucked right in at the foot of a stone wall facing south, so just enough shelter. It gives off huge deep crimson blooms that I always stop to admire. I was in Kent in April. The green was overwhelming, lush, gorgeous, while it was still a blasted winter wasteland here. I hope your garden copes with the heat, Jaine.
Beautiful images, reflected in those gentle paintings. I too feel grateful to be able to enjoy the coolness of a northern summer. Edinburgh was hot (ish) yesterday but here up in the southern hills of the city we at least cool down in the evening.
Hi Samantha,thank you for the lovely photos of Orkney wild flowers in bloom. It's mid winter here in Western Australia which means some rains have come to bring out the wonderful greens everywhere. I went to Orkney some years ago when I was living in Edinburgh and loved how wild it can be. It's a subtle wildness at times and you capture that so beautifully in your art.
Greetings Jyoti, to the winter side of the world! I spent a year in Tasmania and have never seen green like it. So lush! I did get disoriented as the calendar months fell in the 'wrong' season for my brain, so in Autumn used to go to the Botanic gardens, where there were lots of European trees, just to sniff the Autumn smells and convince my brain what season it really was!
Some of your meadow shots remind me of the “pointillism” style of painting where images are built up using only tiny dots. Kind of a pre-tech version of pixels and a reflection of how our rods and cones actually send their signals up the optic nerve. Your paintings have a structure that resonates with all that. Kind of revealing the “buzzing blooming confusion” (William James) of the natural world. Thanks for sharing your beautiful world, Sam. Here are some flowers for you from southern California USA ⬇️
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Gorgeous, Baird! Yes, I am thinking about how the eye sees and mixes colours. I love that phrase "buzzing blooming confusion'! I often think of a line from a poem by Don Domanski 'the biosignatures of invisibilia filling the air'...it gives me such a sense of the air as a living field we move within, that we miss in our blundering distraction.
The images of your dried paint bowls are as beautiful as the wildflowers!!
Sometimes I don't want to wash them out!
For someone from India, where it’s sweltering hot, your post feels like a trip to heaven!
Sending you cool northerly breezes to help make the swelter bearable.
Ah! Thank you. Much-needed!
So beautiful ~ enjoy 😊
I will! I do! Cool light and breezy today. I have my wool layers back on. Socks too.
Same on the Emerald Isle 😅
Thank you for the beautifully cooling photos Sam... we are a UK sweltering 30+ degrees in Kent today. I have a bowl of late Peonies and Alliums on my table outside, left over from a birthday bouquet! My abundant garden is framing them - and today, the first Day Lily popped out. I manage to keep my small garden going with the rainwater and there is plenty of green and wild.
Its difficult to photograph wild meadow flowers - yours look magical.
Ah, beautiful peonies. There is one that grows near here, right by the sea, but tucked right in at the foot of a stone wall facing south, so just enough shelter. It gives off huge deep crimson blooms that I always stop to admire. I was in Kent in April. The green was overwhelming, lush, gorgeous, while it was still a blasted winter wasteland here. I hope your garden copes with the heat, Jaine.
Beautiful images, reflected in those gentle paintings. I too feel grateful to be able to enjoy the coolness of a northern summer. Edinburgh was hot (ish) yesterday but here up in the southern hills of the city we at least cool down in the evening.
Edinburgh is blessed with breezes. I hope they keep you cool Liza!
Hi Samantha,thank you for the lovely photos of Orkney wild flowers in bloom. It's mid winter here in Western Australia which means some rains have come to bring out the wonderful greens everywhere. I went to Orkney some years ago when I was living in Edinburgh and loved how wild it can be. It's a subtle wildness at times and you capture that so beautifully in your art.
Greetings Jyoti, to the winter side of the world! I spent a year in Tasmania and have never seen green like it. So lush! I did get disoriented as the calendar months fell in the 'wrong' season for my brain, so in Autumn used to go to the Botanic gardens, where there were lots of European trees, just to sniff the Autumn smells and convince my brain what season it really was!