This is an 11x14” acrylic and oil painting on a gallery thick, 1.5” hand-stretched canvas.

I took the reference photo for this painting "Mom's Garden" in, you guessed it, my mom's garden 🙃 She has these massive mulch flower beds around her property and every time I visit in the summer one of the first things I do is head outside with all her available vases and make seemingly endless flower arrangements for her home. One of my absolute favourite residents of her garden is the echinacea, or cone flower. They seem to bloom FOREVER and their vibrant pink and purple hues can be seen across the backyard.

As far as a painting subject went, I had way too much fun mixing these paints together and ADORED the photographic perspective, blurring out the more distant blooms and hyper focusing on those in the foreground. When I look into this painting I can feel the humid Ontario summer, smell the grass roasting in the July weather and hear a cicada beetle singing in the trees.