My work tracking blooms in Palo Alto garden and neighborhood inspired these flower paintings during my summer travels with family celebrating my father’s 80th in Colorado, helping my daughter settle into a summer immersion job in France, and packing up my stepfather’s childhood home in England. Along the way, I encountered reminders of California, gathering impressions of place and memory as I connected distant locations to home.​

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The movement of airplanes through the air and sky inspired a large painting, capturing the vast experience of travel. I created smaller flower paintings from that piece, each highlighting observations made on foot in these foreign places. Each bloom noticed at a specific moment, captured the essence of that place.