“Art is the unceasing
effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding“
Gian Carlo Menotti
After all the excitement of my trip to Frankfurt, I was really
looking forward to getting back into my studio once more and painting!! The Natural Law Exhibition is just around the corner and I wanted to do another
flower in gouache. Besides it gave me the wonderful excuse to fill the studio
with vases of colourful blooms!
In the end I chose Dutch Iris, Iris hollandica, a pretty flower which is quite easy to find in the
shops. This proved a wise decision because I had to replace the flower several
times during the course of the painting. I wanted to use the same technique as the Stargazer lily, painting in gouache on dark green mount board. I began by selecting a bloom that had just opened, which I then positioned in front of dark green board.
