Janet Trinkle
Botanical art with pressed flowers and leaves
209.304.0427
212 Lower Dorray Road, Glencoe
209.304.0427
212 Lower Dorray Road, Glencoe
My love of gardening—growing flowers and herbs and vegetables—was the beginning inspiration to press flowers. Blooms don’t last forever, but how fun it is to press all the varied foliage the mother Nature provides. Once I began gathering materials, a deeper sense and awareness of the beauty of nature developed. The delicate markings and veining of leaves and the varying shades in a flower—that create Mother Nature’s paints—made it feel like a treasure hunt of flora wanting to be pressed and preserved.
Spring and summer flowers can now be enjoyed year-round in your home by pressing the various foliage that appeals to you. So the journey begins. After pressing the foliage, when it’s ready to be used for painting, it’s exciting to see what they will look like. Some look very different when pressed. Magically as the flowers emerge they seem to dictate what kind of painting they will become.
Here the magic reign as the color, texture, and shape of flowers and leaves are transformed into paintings to be enjoyed.
I went to my first art show in 1976 in Sutter Creek. I sold pressed flower pictures in the doors of bathroom cabinets. Custom orders for these cabinets began. I have a cabinet from 1976 available, so people can see that flowers can last a very long time
Spring and summer flowers can now be enjoyed year-round in your home by pressing the various foliage that appeals to you. So the journey begins. After pressing the foliage, when it’s ready to be used for painting, it’s exciting to see what they will look like. Some look very different when pressed. Magically as the flowers emerge they seem to dictate what kind of painting they will become.
Here the magic reign as the color, texture, and shape of flowers and leaves are transformed into paintings to be enjoyed.
I went to my first art show in 1976 in Sutter Creek. I sold pressed flower pictures in the doors of bathroom cabinets. Custom orders for these cabinets began. I have a cabinet from 1976 available, so people can see that flowers can last a very long time
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