for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
it reminds me of the critically-endangered ‘Spider Orchid’, a species of orchid native to Australian
‘to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear’
The foliage around these orchids is rich, damp and green. Moss forests, waxy, waving leaves and miniature, curling fern-tendrils allude to a vast miniature world ready to be explored.
Another gem from the Orchid Show, New York Botanical Gardens. This is a Butterfly Orchid; Psychopsis Kalihi, native to Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
It is certainly not everyday that one sees a flower with petals in such a hue. The stems are equally enchanting in a vibrant spectrum of purple, lilac, lavender and blue all melting into each other.
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings.
I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …