{"id":1500,"date":"2017-06-21T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2018-03-26T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:05:55","slug":"my-garden-my-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/my-garden-my-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"My Garden My Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Garden. My Muse.<\/h3>\n

My muse, is my garden. Other gardens as well, but my garden in particular. I move in it, feel it, and hear the breezes whisper through it. I watch the lighting during the day as it slides over and around the textured surfaces.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/a>

These Fire Flame Peonies bloom in my garden each year in May at the same time as the color matching azalea.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lighting so different on days with sun and with clouds. Lighting in the spring with the bright yellow greens of optimistic new growth and lighting by the fall with ambers & tans of a lived life. Morning light offers tender ambiance while afternoon colors not only light the scene from a different direction, the colors are deeper and warmer.<\/p>\n

My garden brings consciousness and meaning to me. It keeps me grounded. The ephemeral beauty of an unfertilized blossom studied up close with magnifiers and macro lenses is a representation of a miracle. The world of possibility. The beginning of a story I represent in my Art. I walk through my garden gathering ideas. Stories I want to tell. Suggested ideas I want to convey.<\/p>\n

In my garden I spend time designing the landscape or I spend time closely and intimately with a singular specimen at a particular stage of growth. In my studio I may paint a vignette or a full landscape view of a part of the garden I\u2019ve designed, or I may choose to paint a small portion of one flower that has moved me. The minute miracle. This is my work. Outdoors and indoors. These are the stories I tell. This is my Art.<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/a>

These Fire Flame Peonies bloom in my garden each year in May at the same time as the color matching azalea.This and other pieces of my Art can be purchased in various sizes on canvas, fine art paper, metal and acrylic in my online Art Shop.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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