In Franklin Tennessee are these magnificent and often huge magnolia trees. The flowers are incredibly milky cream and rusty orange in colour. I was drawn to their soft form and curly shapes within their mass of dark green shiny leaves. As the flowers age they transform from pure soft white into a rich rusty orange. I strove to keep the paintings freely painted with the light and blue of the sky shining through. These paintings are not complicated. They simply express and share beauty.
