Why I don’t paint flowers

Nowadays, I don’t paint flowers

I have nothing against them.

In fact I like them.

A real lot.

The colors. The delicacy. The shapes

And the fragrance.

Furthermore, I like to buy them as a gift.

But I don’t paint flowers.

Because they don’t move me.

A landscape moves me.

The atmosphere. The sense of a place. The expanse. The drama

But flowers?

Long ago I used to paint flowers.

I remember struggling and struggling to paint them well.

It was so challenging.

But slowly I made progress at painting them well.

And I think the paintings of flowers here are pretty beautiful.

But! 

I’d sooner paint a landscape.

That’s all,

Gareth.