BUTTERFLYS
Exploring pattern, abstraction and the mashed up colors found in nature
OIL, PAPER, CANVAS
Pieridae: Colias eurydice
oil on canvas 20x20 inches
“Black butterflies,” the residents of Sarajevo called the ashes of books that fell from the bombed out National Library in Vijećnica. Irene Vallejo
Nymphalidae: Hypolimnas misippus
oil on canvas 16x20 inches
Nymphalidae: Anartia jatrophae
oil on canvas 16x20 inches
Nymphalidae: Precis orithya
oil on canvas 20x16 inches
Papilionidae: Papilio machaon
oil on paper 40 x 40 inches
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for. Georgia O’Keeffe