A Gentle Purple Meadow

Title: A Gentle Purple Meadow

Size: 28 inches x 22 inches x 1/2 inch deep acrylic on canvas

This painting is a tribute to a purple cone flower plant that I’ve struggled to get established in my garden. The first year I tried to grow it, our gardener yanked it out of the ground as a weed. The next couple of years we were having a drought and I couldn’t get it established with the reduced watering. Finally, I have a single healthy perennial plant. Phew! In this painting, I imagined it as having expanded into a dreamy sea of purple flowers and this is how that looks in my mind’s eye. I made it a lot more purple compared to my plant, because that’s how I would prefer it to be. It’s not that I don’t love my plant, because I do, it’s beautiful. I’d just make it more purple and less pink if I were the creator of purple coneflowers.

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