LILIES

 

What better way to spend a lazy summer Saturday afternoon than drawing some beautiful flowers in the garden, breathing in the wonderful fragrance while listening to the swallows chattering on the wires and the bees buzzing in the flowerbeds.

 

 

Two weeks and a lot of drawings later and I was inspired to try some textile art using my sewing machine and a handful of pretty fabrics.

 

Arums at night

"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?"
- Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour



In a mostly green, shady and indigenous garden like I have, these Arum Lilies of mine seem to fairly glow against the dark green foliage at night, fireflies sometimes flitting in between, making me feel like I'm in a fairy landscape!