Gerber Daisy Bouquet

From the Artist: With the onset of the pandemic my work as a clinical psychologist in private practice, like so many others, pivoted from in-office face-to-face meetings to interacting with people mainly through the computer. Daily life was reduced to the confines of my home and stripped of many distractions, leaving me with much more time.
I had tried before to paint at home but never felt I had enough time. Therefore, how to fill my newfound extra time was not a challenge at all for me. I now had the luxury I didn’t think I’d have until semi-retirement years. I found myself drawn to painting flowers bought at local markets and arranged in still life setups in a corner of my home office. The color, life, and fragility of flowers seemed to capture some of the losses felt in the pandemic. A friend noticed my floral paintings on a social media post and reached out to me. She had been developing a floral arrangement and garden container business and asked if she could pair my floral paintings with her arrangements in a storefront in her hometown. Out of this collaboration, I got my very first commission resulting in “White Daisy.”