2024202320222021202020192018earlier
honey

back

Honey

36" x 25"/91 x 64
Oil on panel

2019

Winner of International Artist Magazine Grand Prize

Winner of ARC Purchase Prize and Honorable Mention.

The inspiration for this painting was a walk in the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island. There was a meadow full of enormous thistle flowers, and many of them were covered with bees frantically sucking down nectar. My husband and I got into a discussion about how oblivious the bees were to the good they do for humanity, both by pollinating and by gifting us honey. In this painting, Addie wears a crown of dead jasmine vines. Jasmine represents appreciation and good luck. She is surrounded by butterflies, which are also pollinators, and which want to share in the gift. In her crown sits a female ruby-throated hummingbird. Symbolically, the hummingbird is the healer and bringer of love and joy.

SOLD

 

 

detail1detail1detail2detail3detail4

 



Privacy Policy