ENTWINE 2011
Watercolor on paper

"Entwine" is a series of nine large-scale watercolor paintings of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden which is a formal public garden built in the 1920’s. The paintings are landscape compositions representing an ideal perfectly planted and maintained garden environment, yet my rendering is not quite conventional. The colors are not naturalistic. The forms are silhouettes and abstractions of leaves, shadows, tree trunks, sky, lawns, latticed pavilions and ponds.

"January Crimsons," "5000 Roses," and "Esplanade for Lucy" are a suite completed in 2011. They are the three most recent works and share a similar scale and complexity. Unlike other paintings in this series, the view in each of these three paintings is panoramic.