I love flowers and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I love their growing and their blooming, and especially their colours. I consider it part of my mission as a contemporary artist to encourage attention to flowers.
a gift of flowers
And as a contemporary artist problematising the beauty of flowers is also part of the remit (see the collection Undoing the Arrangement). When I arrived in Berlin, a gorgeous bunch of flowers sat on the table in the kitchen/dining room that has become my studio. As the days passed, I had to watch them fade and die. This experience became a painting.
Watching the flowers die. acrylic on paper, 43 x 60 cm Lynne Cameron, 2015.
And now that experience is becoming a project ... more soon