Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm – A vase with flowers on my kitchen table
“He
must have an artist’s eye for colour and form who can arrange a hundred
flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a
garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the
bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we
see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill
with gorgeous colours and most witching effects. If only she could be
changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a
vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were
gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some
principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming
naturalness and grace which they first had.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
