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Wildflower Botanical Sculptures ​Now Showing At Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
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Vera Flos (wildflowers)
Botanical Sculptures by Loralin Toney

    Inspired by my adoration of the natural world, its simplicity and splendor, I have made a series of wildflower sculptures. Each flower in nature has cohabitants and minute workers in and around them. Insects, fungi, plants, soil and rocks make up the busy productivity that produces the showy bloom.

    I am fascinated with the 15th century Dutch master works, their golden age magnificence, and botanical fanaticism. It was a time of discover from culture to culture, continent to continent. Flower and forest studies were extremely popular as a result.

    My Flower's detailed bases are simple forest floor snapshots from my imagination. A mere reference to Otto Marseus and Rachel Ruschs' 'Sottoboscos'- Forest floor still lifes that became popular during the Dutch golden era.

  


​  Sculpted in porcelain and copper each work harkens back to the kind of craftsmanship of times gone past.  I aspire to recreate a tiny fragment of beautiful and terrible world that we live in. Actuated in  the actions and cycles of the little microclimates of nature that are all around us.

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  • Home & More
    • Works in Progress in pics
    • Contact & commisions
    • About the Artist >
      • Off Grid Blog
      • drawings, portraits, paintings, carpentry
  • NEWS
  • Studio Stories
  • WILD ORCHIDS 2022
  • Crystalis 2022
  • Portfolio
    • Vera Flos 2021
    • ORCHIDEA IMAGINARIUM 2021
    • Tulipa Imaginarium 2021
    • Dutch Master Studies
    • FOREST SPIRITS 2018 mini show
    • RISE 2017
    • DARK FOREST Spring 2016
    • FORESTMEN Fall 2016
    • SEAWOMEN 2015
    • Post Apocolyptic Icons Fall 2011
    • REBIRTH 2009
    • series pre 2009
  • Gallery Shoppe