Between Bloom and Memory

Something new appears the longer you look

Partially veiled shapes and layered color allow forms to emerge gradually, giving the painting a different experience from across the room than it offers up close.

Materials with lives of their own

The dimensional flowers carry real provenance: white Teeswater wool from Adele and hand-dyed yellow Suri alpaca from Satin bring the living world physically into the artwork.

A balance of softness and surprise

The hazy painted surface creates atmosphere while the fiber flowers emerge beyond it, adding dimension, shadow, and tactile contrast.

Between Bloom and Memory

9" × 12"

Fiber-Integrated Oil Painting

on canvas panel

The Story Behind the Artwork

Between Bloom & Memory began as a color-mixing exercise—and I didn't like where it ended up.

Rather than abandon the surface, I covered it with a translucent white wash. That's when something unexpected happened. The colors and shapes I had been trying to change became partially obscured, and I discovered that I loved them that way. Forms seemed to hover beneath the surface, visible without being fully defined.

I continued responding to those fragments until the places for two dimensional flowers began to feel inevitable. The white flower is made with Teeswater wool from Adele, while the yellow flower incorporates hand-dyed Suri alpaca from Satin.

What began as an attempt to cover something became an exercise in revealing it differently. Between Bloom & Memory lives in that space where something isn't entirely clear, yet somehow feels familiar—as memories often do.