SOLD ♥ Grow Well - Original Painting

Message from the Artist: A new original painting from the Thrive Collection.

My initial intent was for this large expectant flower to be a rose. As does happen often, the flower took on her own life and became a stylized bloom. I contemplated reworking her to give her a more common look, but why? Why not create a flower that didn’t exist in my intentions, something that came from nothing but time and love?

A family grows from time and love. A devoted mother wrapping her life around her two children who are indifferent to mama’s worries and troubles. The way they should be. Their innocent faces seek joy and adventure. And in true imaginary-rose-form, in her own stylized and chosen way she wraps her love and passion around her children.

The Thrive Collection. Flourishing despite circumstances, because Spring is a season of intoxicating hope and we are destined to THRIVE. We will push from the soil and reach toward the sky, as we ache for sun and breeze after being tucked away.

Soon is a time for becoming something new – a new version of ourselves. With stronger stalks and more fragrant blossoms. With more texture and layers of meaning that unfold without apology, as we seek to discover new directions.

From dark into light we will go, taking our children along with us. Proving that buds stagnated can eventually bloom. Our flowers may be a big dingy, a bit starved for light, but they are holding strong. Holding out hope. At our fleshy centers, our cores, we believe. We will let inflammation and pain slip away, heaviness will fall from our shoulders and joints.

If flowers are the enlightenment of plants (E. Tolle), then we can marvel at a fresh bloom and know that there is promise for us as well. Infinite promise.