“AWE: Nature's Pigment Power”

The "AWE" Collection was created by dipping into the abundance of beautiful flora discovered while floating dreamily through Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens with a camera in hand and a wildly beating heart. My eyes widened in awe as I took in the wonder of organic shapes, textures, forms, and glowing colors that added such vibrancy to the gray day filled with gentle rain.

This exotic succulent image was printed onto archival paper, layered with encaustic medium, fused between every layer, hand-carved to create rhythm and detail, and colored with powdered pigment to convey my experience of being with this otherworldly specimen of nature. "Nature's Pigment Power" was aptly named, as the ends of these plants appeared as if they had been dipped into dry pigment. The saturation is beyond what my eyes have seen! It is mounted onto archival matboard and adhered to a black wooden frame, wired and ready to hang on the wall in your corner of the world. May the beauty and diversity of Australian flora fill you with awe.