Kathleen Flannagan

Season's Final Blooms

17.37 x 11.88", framed to 23.25 x 17.50"

Watercolor on 140 lb. Cold-pressed Watercolor Paper

$275

Season’s Final Blooms-Coneflowers vary more than I realized until I watched their blooms all of last summer. These outlasted most others, eking out a few blooms in mid-October. On this visit to the patch, the presence, positions and color of different stages of bloom against the fence drew me in.

Artist's Statement:

I was fortunate to take art lessons when I was 10, courtesy of my mother. And, for most of my adult years, I was “too busy” to paint. Gardening, landscaping, home building were my creative outlets. Recently I have begun photographing and also returned to watercolor painting, building on garden discoveries: the amazing variety of color in purple coneflowers, the beauty in dried leaves beside blooming native plants in the woods such as Pink Lady Slippers and Jack in the Pulpit, or the transition coloring and myriad shapes of cherry tomatoes. While I try to represent the subject of a painting, I also try to keep paintings fresh with clean colors and light. Each painting is a discovery, a celebration of creation, and hopefully, something pleasant to view.