Whose Garden Was This?

The title refers to the environmental song by Tom Paxton, which has haunted me for decades. It is also more literally referring to the three watercolor-on-crepe panels that were given to me, artist unknown.

I machine-stitched the various flowers that are attached between the panels, in cotton threads. It took some thought and some work to get them to flow properly in the composition. I added a dragonfly – metallic threads, organza wings – to accompany the painted one in a panel.

There is a trend of gardening with native flowers, such as the milkweed sprouting here in three places. Milkweed tolerates my own “black thumb” and I have sucessfully grown it in my own yard, and delighted at the insects who partook of the flowers.

29 x 25 inches