Growth Patterns

Nature produces so much that I often feel the need to distill my attractions down to their essential form, fixating on pattern, colour and texture.

Leaves showcase nature's imprint of branching designs, diverging and repeating. Mesmerizing tropical foliage, thirsty and bright, spiral up and around: bromeliad, agave, cala, cana, and croton… all magical in their chromatic reach.

I’m fascinated with a certain chosen beauty against the backdrop of mountains and wetlands, with indigenous alder, cedar, maple and fir, creating a hybrid nature. On our property we discovered azalia, daylily, iris, rhododendron, yucca and wisteria blooming alongside salal, periwinkle, thistle and fern, to which we added euphorbia, wild geranium, sedum, succulent, lavender and countless others to create a rhythms for our dancing eyes.