This Series was painted during the Winter of 2025.

I think focusing on plants, was a semi unconscious way of directing my mind to growth and life, during that time of year when we all feel things are a little dreary and dead. I notice this year that I am no longer a person who dislikes Winter, and that was INTERESTING, but by February, I was still very much over it and ready for Spring!

I think I was also drawn to paint plants because I was preparing for the upcoming next focus in my life which was to be: Things and Stuff: Spring Series: PLANTS! What else do you do in Spring when you’re a HAWKER and HOCKER of Things & Stuff?!

Doing PAINTINGS OF PLANTS occurred to me as another THING I could offer as a physical item in my collection. It also came from a clever idea based on my previous experience of doing plants in Pop up Shops in the Fall of last year.

I noticed that people who didn’t buy anything, often said one of these 2 things when they came to my booth:
These are very cool / I love plants BUT:

1. I already have too many plants, and I can’t bring any more home
   OR

2. I kill everything, I can’t do plants!, my thumb is BLACK.

And I thought: if you don’t want a real plant, here have a fake plant!

Perhaps Plant ART can bring something LIKE the energy a real plant brings. While it can’t filter your air and provide oxygen, maybe it can inspire the little joy that plants really do bring, and it doesn’t require a finicky light sitch and for you to figure out a watering schedule that works, or if it’s going to kill your cat or your dog or your kid if they won’t stop gnawing on your potted friends! Oh and plastic pants make my skin crawl, so this was an alternative to that obvious alternative!

Thus, Plant Portraits became a Thing.