My backyard garden brings me so much joy, and it gives me a real relationship with the flowers that I paint. Growing them myself and watching every stage of their development helps me study them in a deeper way.
I love chinoiserie style because it combines my Chinese and French heritage, and I collected this antique dragon vase from an estate sale. In Chinese culture, peonies symbolize wealth, and dragons symbolize good luck and prosperity, so they are symbolic cousins that pair well together! I also love how the soft warmth of the flowers plays off the shiny coolness of the vase.
My original acrylic painting is reproduced as a print on high quality paper. The print ships in a tube and will need to be gently flattened and framed.