The Rose, pre-eminently the flower of love! The ingenious way the petals interlock as if they were woven together like a jigsaw puzzle by Mother Nature. Of course, the rose is also a flower with a lot of mysticism attached to it, as if it were the queen of flowers. The contrast of the flower's beauty and its sharp spines have always fascinated me, a flower we love to look at, but prefer not to touch.
I depicted this flower in one quick flowing line, giving it a minimalist, clean image, which does justice to the beauty of the flower. I am always fascinated by nature and flora in particular. the diversity, the beauty, the power. I look at nature, flowers and plants and all the beauty Mother Earth has to offer us. I live it, experience it, feel it and that moves me. I see the strength and the vulnerability, the wonder and the beauty and all that gives peace, warmth, love. We should cherish and love this. Nature can do very well without humans, we cannot do without nature!
Has it ever been different?
I was always drawing ー as early as primary school, the margin of my notebooks was full of scribbles that didn't have much to do with what was supposed to be there. A lot of nature, especially flora.
The older I got, ..
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