Some of the garden's residents are smaller than the flowers they live on. Tenants of the Lily looks at two orange lilies at the Missouri Botanical Garden, open and unhurried, and at the two tiny residents on their petals that you only see once you've looked for a while.
The eye lands on the right lily first, where the dark red anthers stand in a column in the center of the bloom. It then follows the long petal at right out toward the edge of the frame and finds a small green insect picking its way across the orange. From there it crosses to the left lily, where a tiny fly sits on the tip of a petal. The insects are small and easy to miss, and the picture is built so that you find them yourself. Green buds stand behind the flowers and a soft dark green ground holds the whole scene.
The saturated orange against deep green is Ernst Haas territory, color doing the work that light usually does. Treating each flower as a place with room to move around in owes something to Georgia O'Keeffe, who painted blooms at the scale of landscapes.
Design & Styling
Orange, deep green and dark red suit dining rooms, kitchens, restaurants, boutique hotels and warm, earthy interiors. The 3:2 format fits a wall over a sideboard, console, banquette or dining table. The dark ground works beside walnut, charcoal, cream and natural linen, and the orange gives a room one warm accent without taking it over.
Curated Pairings
Three companions, each connected in a different way:
For the same flower: Pair with Guardian of the Bloom, a white lily with a young grasshopper among the anthers. Both pictures find a small drama inside a lily, one in white and close, the other in orange and wide.
For the same small scale: Pair with The Long Way Across, a single ant crossing a sweeping orange-gold form. Both keep the insect tiny against a large, luminous color field.
For the same garden: Pair with First Light, Clear Water, a duckling on a water lily pad at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Warm orange and cool green, from the same place.
Fine Art Presentation
Available as a signed and numbered limited edition of fifteen (15) prints in ChromaLuxe® Metal, TruLife acrylic, archival paper (framed or unframed) and canvas. ChromaLuxe® Metal is the recommendation: the saturated orange and the deep green gain the most from metal's luminous color and contrast. Low-glare acrylic gives the petals more depth. Framed archival paper is the quieter alternative, and it gives the fine veining in the petals a more tactile read.
Note: Custom and oversized photographic prints are available. Please contact the studio directly to discuss custom framing, matting, or specialized museum glass options.
Some of the garden's residents are smaller than the flowers they live on. Tenants of the Lily looks at two orange lilies at the Missouri Botanical Garden, open and unhurried, and at the two tiny residents on their petals that you only see once you've looked for a while.
The eye lands on the right lily first, where the dark red anthers stand in a column in the center of the bloom. It then follows the long petal at right out toward the edge of the frame and finds a small green insect picking its way across the orange. From there it crosses to the left lily, where a tiny fly sits on the tip of a petal. The insects are small and easy to miss, and the picture is built so that you find them yourself. Green buds stand behind the flowers and a soft dark green ground holds the whole scene.
The saturated orange against deep green is Ernst Haas territory, color doing the work that light usually does. Treating each flower as a place with room to move around in owes something to Georgia O'Keeffe, who painted blooms at the scale of landscapes.
Design & Styling
Orange, deep green and dark red suit dining rooms, kitchens, restaurants, boutique hotels and warm, earthy interiors. The 3:2 format fits a wall over a sideboard, console, banquette or dining table. The dark ground works beside walnut, charcoal, cream and natural linen, and the orange gives a room one warm accent without taking it over.
Curated Pairings
Three companions, each connected in a different way:
For the same flower: Pair with Guardian of the Bloom, a white lily with a young grasshopper among the anthers. Both pictures find a small drama inside a lily, one in white and close, the other in orange and wide.
For the same small scale: Pair with The Long Way Across, a single ant crossing a sweeping orange-gold form. Both keep the insect tiny against a large, luminous color field.
For the same garden: Pair with First Light, Clear Water, a duckling on a water lily pad at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Warm orange and cool green, from the same place.
Fine Art Presentation
Available as a signed and numbered limited edition of fifteen (15) prints in ChromaLuxe® Metal, TruLife acrylic, archival paper (framed or unframed) and canvas. ChromaLuxe® Metal is the recommendation: the saturated orange and the deep green gain the most from metal's luminous color and contrast. Low-glare acrylic gives the petals more depth. Framed archival paper is the quieter alternative, and it gives the fine veining in the petals a more tactile read.
Note: Custom and oversized photographic prints are available. Please contact the studio directly to discuss custom framing, matting, or specialized museum glass options.
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