Collection: Consolation Flowers

Consolation Flowers began in 2023 following the deaths of my grandmother, mother, maternal grandfather, and aunt. The series explores the intersection of grief, memory, and transformation through observational oil paintings of the flowers offered at their funerals. What began as an act of preservation gradually became a sustained practice of reflection and connection, with each painting functioning as a quiet tribute and ongoing conversation with those I lost.

During this period, my process shifted dramatically—from architectural abstraction to the close observation of flowers as they moved through their brief lives. Working with thick impasto and tactile mark-making, I attended to changes in posture, color, and collapse, allowing the paintings to register time, care, and impermanence. Grief, viewed through the cyclical language of nature, remains an open and generative field within this ongoing series.