Bloom paintings were made at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic in Spring 2020. In those uncertain and restricted times, my garden became a world, inspiring forms that express light, energy and optimism.
In addition to watercolour painted directly onto paper, I painted and collaged Shoji - a smooth, semi transluscent Japanese paper. I juxtaposed these firm-cut edges of organic shapes with more amorphous and freely painted ones, some of which dissolve at the edges.
![#3 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2efae8e3317c2b498d4af6b09ad12c0f067b8c4fbedf9c1b91bf4ff8e5ddbd8/BLOOM-3--.jpg)
![First Bloom #1 21x35 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e596cc0c49597cf493db644bcbe36dc70ec37e31f4bb4c055af62ee1551c3822/First-Blooms-no-1.jpg)
![#12 private collection](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c05be7764459dd26e70ee7792246863ae1292f2920b6a5abc9f13fff2e5c3cab/BLOOM-11.jpg)
![#16 37x55.5 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7337525e6e1fe72cc4a2814a14e649bd25f9ff581fb45c143fe48427e1e6bd6b/Bloom-15-.jpg)
![private collection](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee3f738084d35ab1ed06ba7b7bdd2d1a11d2ce3db15bbbbda45c0b00d097947f/GLOW-.jpg)
![#2 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5e3374914d54121990b78e9219288477b492dca0568ae4ca641039f56904620/BLOOM-2--.jpg)
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
![#7 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3473bbdc1f8531bb54ab38d65698a7889b54b9bf10bbed0546d6deec1914cdf3/BLOOM-7-.jpg)
![#8 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96167c683b81098d24eac00114abac71a2f169ef8ae784d937d81972c4d85387/BLOOM-10-.jpg)
![#14 38x33cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/062332a5b84df4d5f244139eff9e74a747dfedd5f4f494d383c4dcad47cd367d/bloom-15.jpg)
![#17 53x76cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8962e0ec01aaa0f4972c8e2768e9ba2266b474349e65b7baf9e7a91d828ad6b3/Late-Bloom-.jpg)
“In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
Soul, turn orange-colored.
Soul, turn the color of love.
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening's end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul, turn orange-colored.
Soul, turn the color of love.
– Federico García Lorca
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
Soul, turn orange-colored.
Soul, turn the color of love.
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening's end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul, turn orange-colored.
Soul, turn the color of love.
– Federico García Lorca
![#10 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33d1fed6f4187b347465ff3f803e2b63bb9f0721910acfc9e70e090817a40ea0/BLOOM-8-.jpg)
![#19 26x26 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6993bf9121210d5cc6ee008ae278d80123d9642fc93ad877bd5d4b8d275118d/Red--White-BLOOM-cmyk.jpg)
![nfs](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b18a92f16629f47eb7793099dbcb71b424c08573e351eac8ad42a85ae8c8d67/First-Blooms-no-3-.jpg)
![#1 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64842854ddbe51f6abffa95e540e9956edb9659bb336dbba1082ec88540eca24/BLOOM-1.jpg)
![# 15x18cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb528b55805e4d7f5b21487195477b3a9cf8c56d83ab3be07e0e718084c7ebc4/Playing--6.jpg)
![#13 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/433147ee7c892ba47f8b8ef9133e6fc2c990a70861dacdba1ef496ccee3d2767/Bloom-no-13.jpg)
![#6 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dbbd004f36681048c3c889584d8ac8d1a88b37aa08a63b4f51e0ee577b68aea/BLOOM-6-.jpg)
Matisse described the process of making his cut outs as “cutting directly into colour”
![#18 55x76cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d51a979ce09291f91a3120ab4a0095b4efe7eb70245446049ff55071b389e83/pink-.jpg)
![#11 private collection](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4d1c14ed9185b57e937b6d051b618e2bfd9fa6c85f6805b93610fdd32b035c7/BLOOM-12-.jpg)
![#20 22x15 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d78f35ff696c9076748a1789233ad653771b4a2c1d027a1983f4b92e384bccc7/Bloom-1.jpg)
![#15 38x33cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c435ab05df401187a65e7fc86effc1bb3081de13828c61619b528086807add4/bloom-14.jpg)
![#5 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b26b02ceab28934a9716babe2b3cf136cca293219c3df18dbaa0850c6187a6/BLOOM-5-.jpg)
![#4 25.5x53.5cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68329c0dcb278c22cc193faa92b59748a8af8f05638e9df4b9a95e703248d01e/BLOOM-4-.jpg)
![nfs](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be21873549b8b896a32cf45d83ba3d1cc43a6f9261466119c2b84cd5660e311b/BLOOM-9-.jpg)