It's About Blooming Time

In this collection of work, view not only nature, but the nature of paint in various techniques. Nikki Davidson refines her blossoming subject matter to create realism, treating each pedal like the perfect muse. Martin Pate displays a more impressionistic style, allowing the light to guide his brush as if the light feeding life to his florals. Heidi Hunt utilizes impasto, paint that rises from the canvas as if growing, and harmonizes the complexity of color on her palette by applying shapes of color that create an energy of simplicity; it is as if each painting were a wild plant itself, cultivated and contained in the illusion that it has been tamed. In Cathy Clodfelter’s paintings, she reflects the patterns she sees in fields of life, telling a story of the life inside us like a dance of stages, reaching and decorating the world with energy and beauty.