MY TWO CENTS
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for… I often feel that way with my photography. In reflecting about the book ‘Flower Color Guide’, and the floral designs of Michael & Darroch Putnam, their floral creations express thoughts and feeling that could never be expressed otherwise. In general, art is a language that creates emotions and feelings that often cannot be retold in words.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) is known as the “Mother of American modernism”. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York. She was not inspired by the focus of her art training of recreating or copying nature, and due to financial reasons she was unable to persue it. She did become a commercial illustrator and spent the next seven years teaching. In the summers between 1912 and 1914, she learned of the Arthur Wesley Dow principles of personal style and interpretation. She began working with this style with watercolors and charcoal abstract drawings. In turn her work caught the eye of Alfred Stieglitz, who was an art dealer and photographer. Stieglitz exhibited O’Keeffe’s work in 1916 and later they married in 1924. O’Keeffe lived in New Mexico when she was not in New York City. After her husband’s death, she established herself there with her last years in Santa Fe. O’Keeffe is best known for her renditions of New York skyscrapers, New Mexico landscapes and my favorite: her large formats of flowers. Her painting Jimson Weed sold in auction for $44.4 million. That was three times more than any previous female artist. To learn more about her and see more of her art, you can visit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe in person, or view online.

Another favorite quote of mine of Georgia O’Keefe is: “If you take a flower in your hand and…”

FEATURED FLOWER
XXL Sunset Dahlia. Photographed @ My Cutting Garden.

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