Forest floor

I sat out on the beetle killed pine stumps near our house and drew in my sketchbook what was on the ground right by my feet.
These sketchbook drawings became the source material for the Forest floor series of paintings.

They are about the chaotic jumble and messy tangle that is the bush. I wrote in my sketchbook, "so much chaos and yet out in the middle of it new growth, new life, beauty".

Kinnickinnick and pinecones Candy coloured Wildflower bouquet Hawkweed and buttercups Strawberry Groundwork Kinnickinnick and twinflower Mapping forest floor spring Mapping forest floor layers weeds Pine trunks