The Plant Shelf has a Space
Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting,Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 8, painted 2/8/25.
Important note:
THIS PIECE DOES NOT COME FRAMED.
These pieces are SHOWN placed in a Basic Box Wood Frame which I love the aesthetic of for the simplicity and minimalist aesthetic. It COULD be a good choice for your frame and you will have the option to add it at checkout. But please note the piece DOES NOT COME FRAMED or in this frame. The picture is so you can see it in a setting but you will get to PYO frame for it! You can ADD THIS frame as an add on during check out.
Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting,Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 8, painted 2/8/25.
Important note:
THIS PIECE DOES NOT COME FRAMED.
These pieces are SHOWN placed in a Basic Box Wood Frame which I love the aesthetic of for the simplicity and minimalist aesthetic. It COULD be a good choice for your frame and you will have the option to add it at checkout. But please note the piece DOES NOT COME FRAMED or in this frame. The picture is so you can see it in a setting but you will get to PYO frame for it! You can ADD THIS frame as an add on during check out.
Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting,Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 8, painted 2/8/25.
Important note:
THIS PIECE DOES NOT COME FRAMED.
These pieces are SHOWN placed in a Basic Box Wood Frame which I love the aesthetic of for the simplicity and minimalist aesthetic. It COULD be a good choice for your frame and you will have the option to add it at checkout. But please note the piece DOES NOT COME FRAMED or in this frame. The picture is so you can see it in a setting but you will get to PYO frame for it! You can ADD THIS frame as an add on during check out.
Back story:
This is what we call the plant corner / plant shelf in our house. There’s a “cubby” in our bedroom over where the water heater lives, that I made into The Plant Nook a few years ago. It’s where a lot of the plants go in the off season, when they have to be rotated from inside to outside, and reverse, based on the time of year.
As my plant collection grew, so too did the space I needed to be able to put plants. 2 years ago I installed grow lights in this Plant Nook area, which was a brand new concept to me. The idea of having inside lights for plants, hadn’t previously occurred to me as something I would ever do. Light comes from the sun, my plants aren’t getting fake light. That was my position being the "naturalist" I have always been. However once I outgrew space at the only place that gets great light in our house, I folded and got fake sun.
This painting is painted from a picture I took of this space, as it was this past Winter. There are so many plants in that space, I did not paint them all. Another instance of NOT intending to represent something exactly as it is.
landscapes inside:
“The Plant Shelf has a Space” was the first of this kind of painting and led to an interest in roomscapes which I see as being a related departure from the original interest in doing landscapes from my cross country road trip.
Check out Write: Plant Portrait Series of February 2025 if you want more story on this piece, including the evolution from landscape portraits to interior landscapes, which was a theme within this Series.
