Finding Inspiration in the Quiet Beauty of Flowers
As I reflect on creating the Ember Glow Collection, I keep returning to the work of Henri Fantin-Latour.
What draws me to his floral paintings isn’t simply the beauty of the flowers themselves—it’s the atmosphere he builds around them. His bouquets feel hushed, almost like a room just after someone has left it. Petals rest in soft clusters, colors leaning gently into one another, as if they’ve settled there rather than been arranged. Nothing shouts. Everything lingers.
I find myself chasing that same feeling in my own work.
I’m less interested in painting a flower exactly as it appears and more interested in what it feels like to stand near it—the warmth of light touching a petal, the way color shifts when you look again and again, the quiet emotional weight a simple arrangement can hold in a space. Not precision for its own sake, but the sense of something alive.
Fantin-Latour reminds me that beauty doesn’t have to be loud to be felt. Sometimes it arrives in restraint: a softened edge where form dissolves into shadow, a glow that seems to come from within the petals rather than fall upon them, a stillness that asks nothing of the viewer except attention. The longer you look, the more it reveals itself.
The Ember Glow Collection was created from that place—a desire to hold warmth in paint, to translate glow into color, to capture the feeling of light settling into a room at the end of the day. Like the last trace of sunlight on a wall, or the quiet warmth that remains after a candle has been blown out.
Each piece is an invitation to slow down. To look a little deeper. To notice how beauty often lives in the smallest, quietest moments—waiting patiently to be seen.