Borrowed Flowers: The Story Behind a New Floral Series
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Some paintings begin with a clear vision. Others begin with a question.
Borrowed Flowers began with both.
I've painted florals before — but I wanted to go deeper this time. More layered. More honest. I wanted to evolve the way I see flowers and the way I translate them onto the canvas.
Where It Started
The series opened with loose pencil sketches — gestural, exploratory, not precious. Just marks on the surface, feeling out the shapes. From there, I began building with glazes: thin, translucent layers of color that shift and breathe underneath each other. Then more pencil. Then more glaze. Back and forth, letting each layer inform the next.
It's a slow, intuitive process. You don't always know where a painting is going until it tells you.
The Colors
One of the most exciting parts of this series has been playing with color shifts. A petal that reads as blush from across the room reveals something cooler, more complex, up close. The glazing technique makes that possible — each layer adds nuance without muddying what's underneath.
It's the kind of thing you can only fully experience in person, which is part of what makes original work so different from a print.
The Paintings
Explore the series so far — each piece is an original acrylic, one of a kind:
- Almost — 18 × 24
- Already — 18 × 24
- Always — 16 × 20
- Forever — 16 × 20
- Tomorrow — 24 × 30
- Yesterday — 24 × 30
What's Next
Borrowed Flowers is still growing. There are more paintings to come — more explorations of layering, mark-making, and the quiet drama of flowers caught between one moment and the next.
If you'd like to follow along as the series develops, join my email list or check back here.
All works in the Borrowed Flowers series are original acrylic paintings, one of a kind.