Backyard Blooms

Oil on gallery canvas.

36x48x1.50"

A couple of summers ago, after moving from a new development where there were barely any trees, I was transfixed by the lush greenery and the sense of satisfaction that a simple scene from my backyard in an older Orleans neighbourhood could bring. “The light exhalation of an insignificant flower outlives all the joys and all the sorrows of a man–outlives the man himself. –Turgenev