Cherry Blossoms 🌸 in the Midnight Sky Large Bowl
This large ceramic bowl features a rich, deep cobalt-blue glaze that creates a dramatic backdrop for its delicate floral design. The interior is adorned with a hand-painted branch of soft ivory blossoms, each flower accented with subtle blush-pink centers and muted green stems. Scattered petals drift gently across the surface, adding a sense of movement and natural elegance to the composition.
The glaze has a slightly variegated, almost celestial quality, with darker and lighter tones blending organically across the curved interior. The bowl’s wide, gently sloping sides and smooth, rounded rim give it a generous, open form—ideal as a statement serving piece or decorative centerpiece.
Artistic yet functional, this bowl combines bold color with refined botanical detail, making it a striking addition to both modern and traditional interiors.
13 inches across the top and the x 6 inches high
Cherry Blossoms 🌸 in the Midnight Sky — Vases
Cherry Blossoms 🌸 in the Midnight Sky — Vases
Part of the Cherry Blossoms 🌸 in the Midnight Sky series, these handcrafted ceramic vases echo the rich elegance and painterly detail of the collection. Each vase is enveloped in a deep, midnight-blue glaze with softly mottled tones that create a sense of depth—like a twilight sky just after sunset.
Delicate branches of ivory cherry blossoms unfurl across the surface, their petals accented with subtle blush-pink centers and fine, muted green stems. The blossoms appear to climb organically from the base upward, giving the pieces a graceful sense of movement and natural growth. The contrast between the luminous florals and the velvety dark glaze creates a striking, serene composition.
The trio features gently rounded forms in varying heights, making them beautiful as standalone statement pieces or displayed together as a cohesive set. Their smooth silhouettes and softly curved rims enhance their contemporary feel, while the botanical motif lends timeless charm.
Elegant and atmospheric, these vases bring the quiet poetry of cherry blossoms against a midnight sky into any space—perfect for fresh stems, dried arrangements, or simply as sculptural art objects.
Orchid in Golden Light
This hand-thrown ceramic bowl radiates warmth with its softly textured golden glaze, evoking the glow of late afternoon sunlight. Across the interior, delicate orchid blossoms bloom in gentle shades of lavender and blush, accented by deep cobalt details that bring movement and life to the composition. Flowing, brush-painted stems arc gracefully across the surface, while grounding washes of muted green anchor the piece at its base.
The interplay of earthy tones and luminous color creates a balance between elegance and organic spontaneity. Both functional and expressive, this bowl serves as a celebration of nature—capturing a fleeting floral moment in enduring clay.
Orchids in Golden Harmony Vases
These matching hand-thrown vases echo the warmth and elegance of the companion bowl, unified by a softly textured golden glaze that glows like sunlit fields at dusk. Each vase features cascading orchid blossoms in muted lavender and blush tones, their petals outlined with expressive hand-painted lines and accented with deep purple centers.
Though similar in palette and motif, the vases vary subtly in form—one gently tapered and the other fuller and more rounded—creating a balanced dialogue between them. The flowing stems and broad green leaves anchor the floral compositions, adding movement and an organic rhythm that wraps gracefully around each vessel.
Together, they celebrate the quiet beauty of orchids in bloom, blending painterly detail with earthy craftsmanship. Functional yet sculptural, the pair stands beautifully as a coordinated set or as individual statements of natural elegance.
Silverlineing Thistle Vessel
This hand-thrown ceramic vessel continues the thistle motif, rendered in deep indigo and soft lavender against a quiet blue sky ground. Each bloom is outlined in silver luster overglaze, creating a subtle shimmer that catches the light and emphasizes the vessel’s sculptural contours.
Silver line work traces each petal and leaf with intention, highlighting the thistle’s resilience and delicate architecture. The rounded form allows the floral imagery to unfold rhythmically across the surface, while the luminous glaze unifies the composition.
Both painterly and dimensional, the piece bridges drawing and clay — a study in strength, surface, and light.
Cherry Blossom Cards
A set of 5 assorted folded cards featuring the Cherry Blossom paintings.
Cherry Blossoms:Â
Perspectives of Impermanence primarily represent the transience of life, as the brief blooming period mirrors the short, beautiful, but fleeting nature of human existence. They also symbolize renewal and new beginnings, marking the start of spring. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has celebrated Japanese cherry blossoms since planting its first collection of trees in 1921. While Washington, D.C.'s cherry blossoms are famous, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens holds the nation's most diverse collection, featuring over 200 trees and 42 cultivars of flowering cherries, creating a long-lasting spring display. My artist residency in Brooklyn gave me a new perspective not only on the Cherry Blossoms but also challenged some old, long-held beliefs I had on what it means to be an artist.Â
The color pink has long been a subject of controversy, with numerous meanings and symbolic interpretations throughout the centuries. In Japan, it is a symbol of masculinity and used for mourning slain samurai; in Korea, it is a sign of trustworthiness, and in China, it symbolizes love, joy, and good luck.
In Japan, there is a legend that each spring a fairy maiden hovers low in the warm sky, awakening the sleeping cherry trees to life with her delicate breath. I love this idea of a fairy maiden waking up the trees each spring.
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A Moment Crossing
A Moment Crossing
Pink blossoms drift across a field of saturated blue, suspended along dark, intersecting branches. The composition feels both structured and tender — lines crossing, petals softening their edges.
The painting lingers in a passing instant: bloom at its fullest, already on its way to change. It holds that quiet crossing between presence and disappearance — a brief radiance moving through open sky.
Blossoms Brief Radiance
A dense canopy of pink and white blossoms presses forward against a saturated field of blue. Petals overlap and tangle, suspended at their fullest expression — lush, unruly, and alive with movement.
Dark branches cut through the abundance, holding structure within the bloom. The painting lingers in that heightened moment just before change — when color is at its brightest, and the air feels charged.
It is a celebration of fullness, and a quiet acknowledgment that even this intensity will pass.
At the Height of Bloom
At the Height of Bloom
Painted during an artist residency in Brooklyn as the cherry trees reached their peak at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, At the Height of Bloom enters the blossoms at their most abundant moment. Petals overlap in saturated pinks and soft blush tones, unfolding against deep green foliage and fragments of blue sky.
The composition moves inward rather than outward — into the density of form, color, and light. Edges soften, shapes press forward, and the scene becomes immersive, reflecting the intensity of a season that is both overwhelming and fleeting.
The painting holds that brief apex of spring — lush, luminous, and already on the verge of falling.
40X54 inches
Connections in Pink
The Connection series incorporates color, lines, and layers. I strive to create pleasing blends of colors and shapes. I use one line that begins and ends at the same spot, symbolizing eternity. I use the doodles that I draw. Making these doodles calms my nerves. I have done these doodles in my sketchbooks or paper scraps for years. In 2020, when I was staring at the dyed canvases I used as my under-paintings, I was unsure how to proceed with them. I felt the whole world was changing, and my work must change, too. Then I thought about the doodles and decided to add them to the canvas and play with color in those spaces.
With these paintings, I've pushed my work further into abstraction, creating a series that is a testament to our shared humanity. The process of making them is a relaxing, meditative journey. The circles are transparent, opaque, divided, and whole. These shapes represent society—all connected by a single line, yet all unique. The dye is symbolic of the elements of life that are beyond our control. As the dye is poured, It runs and drips where it wants on the surface of the raw canvas—usually taking the path of least resistance. Next, I apply layers of ink, latex house paint, acrylic, and charcoal. The final layer is oil paint.
St Abigai's Nippon Daisy
24x30 inch titled St Abigai's Nippon Daisy $2100 This painting of Daisies and Bees □ is inspired by St Abigail the patron saint of bees. When I was reading about her I discovered she is known for her miracles in rousting bees from their hives and using them to chase off evil. Some legends claimed that the bees transformed into soldiers, with their hives becoming helmets. Nippon Daisy’s are also deer □ resistant. I happen to see a herd of 9 deer in my neighborhood often. An Angel appeared to Abigail and told her to look for nine white deer and that is where she should make her home. She settled in Ballyvourney, County Cork Ireland. The medicine she made from the honey is believed to have saved the Ballyvourney people from the plague.