Late Bloom is my watercolor series shaped by second blooms—plants overlooked on city sidewalks and parks, quietly insisting on being seen.
It began with a noticing: plants left out on city sidewalks, their first bloom fading. But beneath the wilt, something stirred. A second bloom. A quiet insistence on being seen—even now.
Each original watercolor captures that in-between moment: when color creeps back into a tired stem, when a flower leans again toward light. These aren’t perfect florals. They’re true ones—marked by time, motion, and the quiet thrill of return.
In a world that celebrates urgency, Late Bloom invites you to pause. To witness beauty that’s easy to miss. To believe in your own unfolding—unruly, offbeat, and right on time.
If something here speaks to you, let’s create together. You can commission a custom piece, collaborate on a floral portrait series, or join me on a watercolor expedition to begin your own story.
Late Bloom – Independence
Late Bloom – Chance
Late Bloom – Swing
Late Bloom – Radiance
Late Bloom – Vulnerability
Late Bloom - Persistence
Late Bloom – Flicker
Late Bloom – Invitation
Late Bloom – Majesty
Late Bloom – Solace
Late Bloom – Purpose
Late Bloom – Resilience
Late Bloom – Awakening
Late Bloom – Offering
Late Bloom – Tenderness
Late Bloom – Whisper
Found Flowers
Floral portraits from the San Francisco Breast Cancer Memorial Garden
I paint to prolong memory.
These floral portraits begin in places shaped by love and loss—memorial and healing gardens where someone has quietly left a flower beside a name. This series starts with a real bloom found on-site at the San Francisco Breast Cancer Memorial Garden. I sketch from life, and then return to the studio to let watercolor deepen what the eye saw and the heart held.
I’m drawn to the flowers that lean—toward a plaque, a bench, a quiet dedication. Not the most perfect or symmetrical, but the ones holding presence. Each is a witness. A companion. A flicker of life still tethered to a name we don’t want to forget.
There’s a beauty in that complexity. As one breast cancer survivor put it, “more complex, a bit ravaged, but beautiful in its own way.” That’s what these paintings try to honor—not just what blooms, but what endures.
If you’d like to create something in honor of a person or place, I’d love to talk. You can commission a custom piece, collaborate on a floral portrait series, or join me on a watercolor expedition to begin your own story.
To support continued research and care, 10% of all proceeds from this pieces and their prints will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Found Flowers – Forgiveness
Found Flowers – Becoming
Found Flowers – Ember
Found Flowers – Gift
Rooted is a watercolor series shaped by past ideas, artworks, and colors, carried forward into new work.
Rooted began with a slow noticing—how certain colors and forms recur across time. An ancient frescoed bloom from Teotihuacan, the charged stillness of Matisse’s portrait of his wife, where color feels less descriptive and more alive. What held me was that persistence: the way a mood can stay rooted while everything around it shifts. This work lives in that tension—between ancient marks and modern color, between holding fast and reaching outward.
If something here speaks to you, let’s create together. You can commission a custom piece, collaborate on a floral portrait series, or join me on a watercolor expedition to begin your own story.
Rooted – Arrival
Rooted – For Amélie Matisse
Commission your own bloom – because it means something to you.
Every painting starts with a story.
Some mark a turning point. Others celebrate growth, new chapters, or a flower that just stayed with you. Each one is painted slowly, with presence and care—for what it represents, and what it might become.
These aren’t just botanical portraits. They’re personal emblems. Colorful keepsakes. Quiet declarations of what matters.
Rooted in the real. Painted from life whenever possible.
So—what flower holds meaning for you? Let’s make something from it.
Late Bloom – Threshold. Private commission.
Late Bloom – Poise. Commission by Fogpatch Landscapes.