24” x 30” 
plaster & chalk    


On Exhibition at The Gallery at 777
23 0ct - Dec 12, 2025
777 Homer St., Vancouver, BC

Acquired by N.Paolella




Bouquets of flowers hold an enduring beauty precisely because they are seasonal and fleeting: they gather the colours of spring and summer into a pageant of beauty that must be enjoyed in the moment, knowing that they will not last forever.

Wildflowers in a Terracotta Pot celebrates this temporal exuberance of the flower bouquet, yet seeks to render it timelessly ossified in stone, as though the ephemeral beauty of flowers could be fossilized and preserved past their season.  A bunch of opulent wildflowers are gathered in an ancient terracotta pot, bringing nature's most fleeting foliage into proximity with an artifact that has survived multiple generations and civilizations. 

Though painterly in its appearance, this work was not created with traditional brush and paint. Instead, construction tools such as screwdrivers, wrenches, chisels, and palette knives were used to stamp, carve, and incise the forms that shape the composition. Sticks of chalk are cast into the plaster as a rectilinear counterpoint to the flowing, marbled forms of the flowers. The resulting marks bear the evidence of industrial fabrication, adding texture and weight to the subject’s delicacy.