Lilies2Painted by Suzanne McDermott in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Age of Flowers is a series of twelve watercolor paintings on Indian Village handmade paper.

Carefully calibrated to capture every nuance of the original, the paintings are now available as giclées on Arches paper. Each is approved and signed by the artist.

The Age of Flowers



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8 x 10 and 16 x 20 posters of The Age of Flowers

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Suzanne McDermott has released her new book based on this series

Preface

           In Loren Eiseley’s essay, How Flowers Changed the World, he names the geologic period in which the flowering plant appeared “the Age of Flowers” and describes how flowers made way for the emergence of the human species.

          I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia from 2003 to 2005. There, my life was filled with flowers from my backyard, neighbors’ yards, the City Market, Curtis L. Morton’s Dahlia patch and, in the midst of winter, Hedge and Whole Foods flower department. In my personal age of flowers, I pored over books on the history of flower painting and pursued impossible attempts to capture with pencil, pigment and water on paper those mysterious and ephemeral forms— those forms of life that raise the vibration of every space they occupy.

          If you pay close attention to a flower, in time you behold birth in the bud, sexuality in the bloom, decay in the fragrance and, as the blossom fades, the passing of death making way for new birth. With Beauty and Truth, the life of each flower reveals everything you need to know.